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Cut your computerâs carbon by undervolting
The Green Lounge | May 12th 2008 by Holly
The Go Green (http://gogreen.theconsortium.co.uk/make-your-pc-more-energy-efficient-or-extend-your-laptop-battery-life-with-%E2%80%98undervolting%E2%80%99/) blog has just published a great article on undervolting your computer’s processor. Now, read more
Is Bittorrent a green technology?
The Green Lounge | April 29th 2008 by Holly
Check out this interview with Bittorrent CTO Eric Klinker from Beet.tv (http://www.beet.tv/2008/04/bittorrent-and.html). The interview was supposed to be about Bittorrent’s cooperation with Comcast but, as the interview was recorded on Earth Da read more
Happy Earth Day
The Green Lounge | April 22nd 2008 by Holly
Why do we celebrate Earth Day? According to Wikipedia, in 1969, at a conference in Seattle, Washington, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (pictured) announced that in the spring of 1970 there would be a nationwide grassroots demonstration designed to thrus read more
Watts Up with a Gaming PC?
The Green Lounge | April 18th 2008 by Holly
Here’s the latest installment in The Green Lounge’s ‘Watts Up (../../../../index.php/Watts-Up-/)’ series of videos. This time around we used the Watt Up power meter to measure how much electricity it takes to run a high-end ga read more
Go Green in 3 Steps: a Company Guide
The Green Lounge | April 15th 2008 by Holly
With the gathering momentum around green computing, many companies are looking at starting their own green initiatives. However, according to Karen Larkowski, founder and chief evangelist at the Green Computing Impact Organization, it’s not alw read more
Energy Utilities: Environment is the biggest worry
The Green Lounge | April 10th 2008 by Holly
Two days ago, research company Platts and consulting firm Capgemini published the results of a survey that asked 100 executives from the energy and utilities industry what their biggest concerns were. Included in the survey were companies that pr read more
Watts Up with an average PC?
The Green Lounge | March 20th 2008 by Holly
A couple of months ago I made a video (../../../../index.php/Watts_Up_with_the_Zonbu_.html) looking at the power draw of the Zonbu PC. Here’s an excerpt from the post: With the odd new product passing through The Green Lounge, I’ve de read more
Is affordability hampering the conversion to Green IT?
The Green Lounge | February 21st 2008 by Holly
Ollie Ross from The Corporate IT Forum (http://www.tif.co.uk/) has written an article on the uptake of green technologies in the UK (http://www.vnunet.com/computing-business/analysis/2210062/spend-save-3768311) corporate setting and suggested how the read more
India's Evergreen Revolution
The Green Lounge | January 23rd 2008 by Holly
According to an article on the BBC web site (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7202545.stm) yesterday, India will attempt to implement a revolution in information technology similar to the scale and scope of the Indian agricultural revolution of read more
UN Climate Change Conference
The Green Lounge | December 18th 2007 by Holly
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, which ran from December 3 to 14 this year, has just finished and looks set to send a clear and unambiguous message to the developed world: reduce your carbon footprint now before it is too late. read more
Vampires in your house
The Green Lounge | December 17th 2007 by Holly
Using data from a 2005 report by the US Dept of Energy, GoodMagazine has produced this graphic (http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/008/trans008vampireenergy.html) showing how much power various appliances use when left in standby mode (e.g. read more
What is a Green Product?
The Green Lounge | December 7th 2007 by Holly
There was a very interesting, and concerning, article published earlier this week in InformationWeek (http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=204601002). Forrester Research has made public a study of U.S. consumer elect read more
This is a green website
The Green Lounge | November 30th 2007 by Holly
If you have a look over near the bottom of the left-hand sidebar, you’ll see we’ve added a new widget. CO2Stats (http://www.co2stats.com/) is a free tool that monitors and offsets your blog or web site's carbon dioxide emissions by calcul read more
Measuring Supercomputers by 'Floppage per Watt'
The Green Lounge | November 28th 2007 by Holly
Twice-yearly TOP500 (http://www.top500.org) puts out a list of the world's fastest supercomputers. This is a closely watched event in the world of high performance computing, with inclusion in the list having become a highly sought after prize. F read more
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