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by Stan Beer
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Most of us equate an increase in servers with increased power consumption. However, Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom, claims its "green IT strategy" has enabled to it to increase servers in its data centre while reducing power consumption.
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by Tony Austin
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A new tip in IBM's developerWorks shows you how to monitor application usage, system attributes, and user activity to more effectively use the power-management systems of your Linux laptop or desktop computer.
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by Stan Beer
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The man once touted as the next CEO of SAP Shai Agassi has forged agreements between his company, Better Place, Australian utility heavyweight AGL Energy and the financial advisory arm of Macquarie Group, to launch a AUD$1 billion electric car infrastructure project in Australia.
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by Stan Beer
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Australia is to host a distributed energy conference in November, organised by the CSIRO. The event, hosted in Sydney, will focus on ways to generate renewable and other sources energy closer to the places that use them.
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by Mike Bantick
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In a typical household, over 12 percent of the power bill goes on the small amounts of power consumed by devices in standby mode. Are you a gamer? Well ratchet that figure up considerably further. TrickleStar have a device to save that waste. iTWire spoke to co-founder Bernard Emby recently.
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by Stephen Withers
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Greenpeace has praised Apple for eliminating certain harmful chemicals from the latest iPods. That's quite a turnaround for the organisation that previously criticised Apple not for its deeds but for a lack of words.
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by Stephen Withers
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Updated versions of Adaptec's RAID controllers deliver power savings by taking advantage of green features in the latest drives. Energy use by the drives can be cut by up to 70 percent, the company claims.
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by Davey Winder
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In what it claims as a world first, a UK company has announced a chair made from 100 percent recycled plastic from a single source. Oh yes, that source happens to be the Sony PlayStation 2 games console...
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by Stephen Withers
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While the IT industry makes various efforts to improve its green credentials through measures including reduced energy consumption and the reduction or even elimination of certain hazardous substances, the proper disposal of equipment when it reaches the end of its life can be a thorny point. D-Link thinks it has an answer.
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by Stephen Withers
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Australian companies are not thinking about the environment, according to a new survey. More than half of Australian employees say environmental issues are not on the agenda at their workplaces, and one third say legislation would the most effective way of making businesses become environmentally responsible.
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by Stephen Withers
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Intel is promising PC manufacturers and users a new generation of processors featuring a "turbo mode" that delivers high performance without generating additional heat. The chip maker unveiled plans for the new processor range at its Developer Forum in San Francisco.
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by Stephen Withers
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Google has continued its investments in alternative energy sources by injecting nearly $US11 million into enhanced geothermal systems.
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by Stan Beer
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Scientists at Monash University in Australia, together with Princeton University and the CSIRO, have discovered a new way to produce Hydrogen from water using artificial photosynthesis. The process, which uses chemicals found in plants, works even under low light conditions and with ordinary sea water, according to the lead researcher.
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by Stephen Withers
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The University of Toronto is set to become home to the largest - though perhaps not the fastest - supercomputer outside the US.
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by Davey Winder
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A new report from the UK Renewable Fuels Agency admits that only 19 percent of biofuels meet environmental standards...
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by Stephen Withers
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System builders from Western Australia have made a major impact in a competition calling for the assembly of a Green PC. Despite WA being one of Australia's less populated states, it was home to almost half of the finalists, including the first and second place getters.
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by Stephen Withers
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Canadian utility BC Hydro is offering its business customers a $C6 rebate for every Macintosh running the third-party Power Manager utility. While Mac OS X's Energy Saver allows for one automatic start up or wake event and one shutdown or sleep per day, Power Manager is considerably more flexible.
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by Stan Beer
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The chief professor of energy at MIT and a fellow researcher have discovered a cheap way to mimic the way plants store energy from the sun and say that it will enable homes and electric cars to be run entirely on solar power and fuel cells. The energy nirvana has been found and could signal the era of centralised power distribution they say.
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