Tag: energy
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Interesting energy storage solutions?
Photo credit Tom Raftery I published this post on the IBM Global Eco Jam last week and it generated some interesting feedback so I thought I’d re-publish it here too to solicit your thoughts – I was at the NewNet CleanTech Investors Summit in London last November. At this event a poll was taken asking…
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NightWatchman saving energy
Following on from my earlier post about the importance of turning things off, we had a briefing the other day from a company called 1E. 1E entered the power management space about 10 years ago when they wrote NightWatchman. NightWatchman is a PC power management application which aims to reduce the energy wasted by computers…
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IBM Eco Jam – 1 day in!
Well, the IBM Global Eco Jam has been underway nearly 24 hours at this point – how is it going? It has been incredibly active, I have to say. You can see from the screenshot I took earlier this morning that the number of posts was 987 at that point – I just checked now…
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IBM Eco Jam kicks off later today with an impressive line-up
Photo credit justmakeit The IBM Global Eco Efficiency Jam kicks off this afternoon (January 27th) at 9am EST (14:00 GMT, 15:00 here in CEST) and continues right on through until Friday afternoon. According to the IBM site the Jam is a web-based event which will provide an unrivalled opportunity for thousands of public and private…
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The day that we see all devices which consume water having networked flow meters is still a ways off
I wrote a post a couple of days ago asking the question How long until all devices which consume water have networked flow meters? after talking to Oracle VP Industry Strategy, Guerry Waters about Oracle’s recently released “Testing the Water: Smart Metering for Water Utilities” study. Having put the question out there, I’m now going…
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How long until all devices which consume water have networked flow meters?
Photo credit bmitchellw Oracle published the results of a very interesting study recently called Testing the Water: Smart Metering for Water Utilities. Now, we have all heard about the compelling case for Smart Meters for electrical consumption (I have written and spoken about it extensively) but in this study Oracle asked utilities and their customers…
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PG&E smart meter communication failure – lessons for the rest of us
Photo credit svale What we have got here is a failure to communicate The famous line from legendary movie Cool Hand Luke is the first thing that comes to mind when one hears about the fiasco which PG&E’s smart meter rollout in Bakersfield Ca. has become. From the report on the SmartMeters.com site: a class-action…