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Homemade Computer Crafted with Legos, Crunches Numbers for Medical Research

12:36 pm in computing, electronics, energy efficiency, gadgets, Science & Technology, technology by TreeHugger

lego computer photo All photos by Mike Schropp of Total Geekdom What do you do when your hobby is building computers, and you have a keen desire to build a highly energy efficient computer that can be utilized by supercomputers for computations for medical research? Oh, and you have a ton of Legos laying around? Well, for one computer geek, that created a perfect opportunity for making an energy efficient, but incredibly powerful PC out of, yes, Legos. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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HP Unveils EcoPOD Data Center with 95% Efficiency

11:14 am in computing, energy efficiency, Science & Technology, technology by TreeHugger

hp ecopod image Image via HP While all the attention was on Apple's iCloud this week, HP quietly slipped out some news that is not so insignificant. The company revealed EcoPOD, short for "Performance Optimized Data Center," a modular data center that claims a Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) of 1.05. That kind of efficiency is rather miraculous, as a PUE of 1 represents perfect efficiency and the industry average for data center efficiency sits at around 2. While some competitors like Google and Microsoft have gotten some of their data centers to as low as 1.14 or so, a rating of 1.05 is simply e...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ecosia Search Engine Raises $330,000+ For Amazon Rainforest

10:07 am in amazonia, Business & Politics, computing, forestry by TreeHugger

Ecosia green search engine photo Image: Screenshot, Ecosia.org Green search engine Ecosia was already making waves at its first birthday, by which point it had contributed $160,000 to WWF's Jureuena rainforest project in Brazil. Now, six months later, the search engine (which is powered by Bing) has raised $334,202.63 for the rainforest, and that number keeps climbing....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Building a Town In A Computer in Four Dimensions

8:33 am in canada, computing, Design & Architecture, green building by TreeHugger

batawa computer model fai photo Images credit CIMS 3D modelling is pretty common these days; Google even gives away Sketchup so that anyone can do it. BIM, or Building Information Modelling, is more sophisticated; with BIM you build the project in your computer, with every hidden 3D component modelled, not just the visible ones. Stephen Fai of Ottawa's Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS) takes it to the next dimension, adding the fourth, time....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Smart Grid Comes To The Netherlands

9:32 am in computing, energy efficiency, Science & Technology, technology, utilities by TreeHugger

smart grid image image via DOE Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability It's no secret that there are vast concerns in major utility companies operating a large smart grid connected to household smart meters that charge consumers a variable rate based on area usage. Unless individuals purchase updated products and tailor their daily habits to adjust for off-peak periods, which are generally considered to be weekends and weekday nights, mont...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Google Experimenting With World’s First Seawater-Cooled Data Center

12:07 pm in computing, electronics, energy efficiency, Science & Technology, technology by TreeHugger

waves crashing photo Photo by Peter Kaminski via Flickr CC Google has never been a slouch when it comes to trying out new ways to make its data centers as energy efficient as possible. Some ideas have been ocean-centric, such as its wave-powered data center concept. Slightly less futuristic but no less interesting idea is a seawater-cooled data center. Google plans to test out just such a data center starting this Fall. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Data Center Infographic Explains Our Enormous Information Energy Footprint

2:39 pm in computing, electronics, energy efficiency, Science & Technology by TreeHugger

via internet science tech Cleantechnica has a cool infographic detailing data center energy consumption, as well as ideas for how to turn expenses into opportunities for energy efficiency. It's a great way to understand strategies for efficiency, such as how virtualization can cut down the amount of electricity that goes in to powering unused servers. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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