Canberra residents will soon have an opportunity to responsibly dispose of unwanted computer equipment. Dell and the Australian National University are organising another recycling day.
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Internode founder and managing director, Simon Hackett, is taking his new Tesla Roadster electric sportscar on the road in October as part of Internode’s involvement in the Global Green Challenge car race from Darwin to Adelaide.
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See all those little red lights on your electrical equipment? Remember all those “black balloon” adverts? Feeling too lazy to flick the switch at the point after a gaming session? If so, there are a couple of new products about to hit the Australian market that might save your hip pocket as well as your ever-polluting soul.
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The American Chemical Society is reporting that chemists have for the first time used an "economical, eco-friendly process" to convert algae oil into biodiesel fuel. The U.S. researchers say it could someday free the United States of its dependence on domestic and foreign petroleum-based products.
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Even though the global economy is in a financial downturn, Tesla Motors is continuing with its plans to produce an all-electric car in the United States. Its slick, seven-seat Tesla Model S was unveiled in California.
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While US printing presses are working overtime trying to create enough dollars to meet demand, Australian researchers are developing a way to use the same process to harness the energy of the sun.
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Australian inventor Ian Edmonds has developed a balloon engine that uses solar energy to power a large hot air balloon. One such balloon could produce enough power for ten average sized homes. And, you thought all balloons could be used for were birthday parties, parades, and balloon rides!
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Scientists at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) are researching ways to use the sun’s energy to cool homes and offices.
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A leading analyst believes that the Internet is in danger of becoming a
target for green groups and anti-global warming organisations because
of the massive power consumption of data centres. Is it possible that
the greenies may soon target the Internet industry as environmental
vandals?
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Pop Quiz: what is the most environmentally friendly drive for data centres today? Samsung reckons it has the answer in the biggest little speedy green SSD yet.
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File under strange but true: it seems that there is a veritable panic amongst Brits over fast dwindling stocks of traditional 100W incandescent lightbulbs.
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U.S. researchers report that coffee grounds can be an environmentally friendly biodiesel fuel, by providing plenty of cheap fuel to power all of our motorized vehicles, even the trucks that deliver coffee to Starbucks.
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IBM and Harvard University are spearheading a project to make cheaper and more efficient solar cells by harnessing spare computer capacity around the world. The project will harness the power of more than one million computers connected to the World Community Grid.
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Hawaiian governor Linda Lingle announced that the state will coordinate Better Place car battery exchange stations for electric vehicles on its islands. If Hawaii is pursuing such green driving practices, why aren’t the other U.S. states doing it, too? Actually, California is!
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Many of us are looking for ways to cut electricity consumption at home for financial as well as environmental reasons. But turning off your network infrastructure is a bit of a chore, so D-Link's come up with some ideas to automate power savings.
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In Spain, a "green" cemetary is now operating as a two-layered facility. The town’s mausoleums are on the ground level but, now, above them sit a series of solar panels generating electricity for many of its local citizens.
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