Items tagged with Green technology
POWERCOLOR INTRODUCES SILENT AND EFFICIENT VIDEO CARD SERIESThe Go! Green series wraps graphics performance in a green packageWalnut, Calif. – June, 17, 2009– TUL Inc., a leading manufacturer of AMD graphics cards, is proud to announce a new series of products that is environmentally friendly and cost efficient for the consumer. The PowerColor Go! Green series offers the HD4650 and HD4350 Silent Cooling Solution (SCS) for stealth like silence and low power consumption.The PowerColor Go! Green series consumes up to 38% less power than competing graphics cards and performs up to 36% better in benchmark tests. The standard Silent Cooling Solution (SCS) on the Go! Green series mean consumers looking...
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Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may have created the ultimate green battery technology: They’ve engineered a virus that could potentially form a battery that would outlast and out power those available today. The batteries could be used to power small electronic devices such as cell phones and MP3 players. In the future, they could also be used to power automobiles. The M13 virus used to create the batteries infects only bacteria, so it is harmless to humans. The recent discovery builds upon research that was performed three years ago when an MIT team genetically engineered viruses that could build an anode by coating themselves with cobalt oxide and gold and self-assembling...
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Green technology has generated a lot of buzz lately. Regardless of your views of global warming and going green, we can all agree there are financial benefits to products that require less energy to run. Realizing a lot of energy is wasted on idling servers, Microsoft has revealed a new research and development project named Marlowe. This project is looking into more efficient ways of turning servers on and off throughout the course of a day. Through its research, Microsoft has found servers typically process more requests in the morning when people are catching up on their email, firing up programs, and surfing the Internet. The servers hit a quieter period later in the day and occasionally...
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Whether you’re looking for a way to cut costs or you simply want to do what’s right for the environment, going green certainly seems to be a hot topic in today’s society. Not to be left out of the earth-friendly party, Hitachi is the latest hard drive manufacturer to go green. Hitachi recently announced the fourth-generation of its CinemaStar hard-drive family. The drive features Hitachi's EcoTrac Classification, which means it is halogen-free and has very low power consumption. The new CinemaStar features a 22% reduction in read/write power specification (at 1.4W) compared to previous models and is designed for use in continuous, 24x7 applications. This 2.5-inch, 5,400rpm SATA laptop hard drive...
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It seems everyone is going green these days. This year, even the infamous ball in New York City that helps many of us ring in the New Year will also be “green.” Last month, the co-organizers of New Year’s Eve in Times Square unveiled a new Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball that is double the size of previous balls and weighs 11,875 pounds. What makes the ball “green” is its 32,256 Philips Luxeon Rebel LEDs, which is more than three times the number of LEDS used last year. So how can this ball be considered green, you might ask? This year’s ball is 10-20% more energy efficient than last year’s Ball, which was also considered efficient. To put things in perspective, this year’s ball will consume...
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