Tag: Global Warming
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Using I.T. to add green power to the network
The problem with wind power is that its production is variable and difficult to predict. From the perspective of a power supply company, such a supplier is unreliable and likely to de-stabilise the power network. For instance, at 2am in Ireland, when the demand for electricity is near its lowest, if a 40mph wind is…
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Tax on company cars causes increased carbon emissions!
I was speaking to a sales rep yesterday who was driving a company car. He told me about the Irish government’s scheme to tax people for receipt of company cars. It is called Benefit in Kind (BiK). Basically, if your employer gives you a company car, you are liable to pay 30% of the original…
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Yahoo! also going for carbon neutrality!
I see Yahoo! has announced that it is going to follow our lead in CIX *cough* and aim for carbon neutrality! In the announcement David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo! said: we’re going to invest in greenhouse gas reduction projects around the world to neutralize Yahoo!’s impact on the environment. While doing our homework on this,…
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Eddie Hobbs Keynote address at the 2006 it@cork conference
Eddie Hobbs gave the keynote address at the recent it@cork conference. It was a wide-ranging, interesting and very topical talk. This afternoon I published a recording of his address on the it@cork blog. It is 55 minutes long (including the q & a at the end) but well worth taking the time to listen to.
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Climate change
Not really tech-related I know, but I was appalled over the weekend when I read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change‘s (IPCC) summary report (pdf) on climate change. The summary report is a 21 page document summarising a four volume report yet to be released. It is the work of over 1200 scientific authors and…