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Verizon Links Carbon Footprint to Bytes of Data Delivered
The telecommunications giant began testing the new metric over the last year. The metric tracks the amount of carbon dioxide emissions produced while moving a terabyte of data.
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Cisco Drives into EV Market with ECOtality Deal
The technology giant will integrate ECOtality’s electric vehicle recharging technology with its own smart meter system.
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Facebook, Microsoft, Dunkin’ and More Join EDF’s Climate Corps
The Environmental Defense Fund’s 2011 Climate Corps program adds new companies to the roster of major firms that will welcome MBA candidates to their facilities this summer to search for potential energy savings.
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BNY Mellon’s Energy Star Data Center Saves Millions in Energy Costs
In the past five years, the facility outside Pittsburgh has saved 80 million kilowatts of energy use, trimming $7.5 million from the bank’s energy bills, and is in the process of getting LEED certification as well.
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Cisco Holds on Tight to Greenpeace Green IT Rankings
With a score of 72 out of a possible 100, Cisco boosts its score to stay at the top of the heap, while Ericsson and Fujitsu also made big strides in applying IT solutions to greenhouse gas emissions to land in second and third place.
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Finding the Greenest Companies in Silicon Valley
Tech companies, in California and across the world, are among the highest-ranking firms in a new sustainability assessment. But while some of these companies are strong on initiatives, the industry lacks systematic, holistic approaches to greening.
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Green IT: Big Success for Small Enterprises
This report from Info-Tech highlights nine green IT initiatives that can help small businesses improve efficiency and save costs.
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Bloom Energy: Should you believe the hype?
The clean tech news of the week is going to be dominated by Bloom Energy‘s emergence from stealth. I can hardly believe that it was almost four years ago that I first wrote about Bloom. Reading that 2006 EcoGeek article, I’m proud to say that we got got the broad picture right, but the details are still tantalizing.
Bloom Energy’s current product is a relatively inexpensive and versatile fuel cell that can power roughly 100 American homes. The devices cost $700,000 a piece an are roughly twice as efficient as natural gas power transmitted through the grid. They’ve sold a bunch of these boxes (with hefty federal and state subsidies) to a bunch of large businesses in California, including Google, eBay, FedEx, WalMart and Staples. The boxes are busy creating “clean” energy as we speak.
Bloom has finally opened the doors to its operation to the press, allowing 60 Minutes a walk-through of their facility as well as providing interviews with the CEO of eBay and former Secretary of State Colin Powell. But I put “clean” in quotation marks because, despite the fact that the words “carbon dioxide” are never mentioned, Bloom Boxes still pump CO2 into the atmosphere, albeit far less than a traditional grid-scale natural gas plant would.
Bloom’s energy is certainly cleaner energy, but while they’re busy comparing themselves to solar power and wind, they’re not true clean energy unless they use bio-gas. I applaud them for using bio-gas when they can, but there simply isn’t enough of the stuff to power Bloom Boxes on a significant scale.
But let’s not spend too much time arguing about whether “cleaner” counts as “clean.” In my book, this is certainly good enough.
Bloom’s true potential is in super-charging the distributed power system. Bloom (very optimistically) wants to shrink its box (in size and cost) so that every American can have one in their basement for around $3000. The box would power the entire house, basically making a connection to the grid a convenience, not a necessity. This may not seem important until we realize that up to half of the power produced at a power plant is lost in transit.
Bloom Energy might also help power the developing world without expensive power infrastructure just as cell phones have created a cheap communications infrastructure.
Bloom’s goals are lofty and it may be that distributed power is going to be a long time in coming if it comes at all, but while they’re doing a great job of making this revelation sound more important than it is in the short term, the chance remains that this could actually be a very big deal.
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Can Facebook’s Data Center be Green if it Runs on Coal?
The social network earned cheers aplenty for its recently announced energy-efficient data center, some of which are turning to jeers now that it turns out its electricity will primarily be generated by dirty coal.
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