Archive for the ‘Environmental Sustainability’ Category

NASA Snapshots of World Solar Irradiance

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

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BLM Decides U.S. Energy Destiny . . . Again

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

The Bureau of Land Management's decision to suspend U.S. solar energy projects until it completes an environmental review will make it impossible to transmit solar energy from power plants to end users in the southwest. The maps below show BLM owned land in the southwestern United States with validated solar-energy ...

Power Companies Cash in on the Wikipedia Effect

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

[singlepic=217,500,410,,center] ZigBee is a global architecture that creates wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, today announced public availability of its ZigBee Smart Energy public application profile. ZigBee Smart Energy provides utilities and technology suppliers an easy-to-use wireless standard for developing products that improve energy management and ...

Liter of fuel would last UK 1 year if cars had kept pace with computers

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

One liter of fuel would supply the UK enough energy for an entire year if efficiency in the car industry had risen at the same rate as it did in computer technology, according to the calculations made by highly regarded British computer scientist. The efficiency gains would have extended the life ...

Rewriting the Rules of Conservation

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

The language of conservation is getting a much needed overhaul courtesy of an international team of conservationists who are trying to standardize the discipline's language. The project plans to ground the discipline's problems and tools field in a framework of well defined concepts. The new system applies at every level of ...