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I’ve gotten to explore all sorts of concepts in my role here at GreenTech Pastures, including one of my favorites from high-school biology, osmosis. For those of you without school-age kids, this is the process by which water moves through membranes or flows from cell to cell. Confession: I had to look the word up

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China plant opts for osmotics tech that slashes energy needed for desalination

When you think about surveys touting the benefits of cars, or lack thereof, the researcher that probably jumps to your mind first is the venerable J.D. Power and Associates.

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New survey makes me wonder: Who’s buying electric and hybrid cars, anyway?

Proponents of the idea that safe direct current (DC) power should be more widely used in data centers have formed a new technical committee to encourage the development of standards for data and telecommunications centers. The group is called the EMerge Alliance, and at least one of the newest members of this group will be

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DC power movement gets new charge

Before you buy a new piece of computing or electronics equipment during the upcoming holiday or year-end IT budget blowout, you might want to consider what it will take to get rid of what you are buying three to five years down the road. Yep, Greenpeace is at it again, with the release of its

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HP bests Apple, Dell and other rivals in latest Greenpeace green tech guide

Just how much power are businesses and the federal government wasting by failing to manage whether or not their PCs are on or off at night or, if you prefer to think in convenience, when they’re not needed? A new study says that desktops and laptops are left on approximately 94 percent of the time.

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Power management still more talked about than deployed

In case you’re wondering the nearest recycling location to your home or business OR are interested in receiving regular bimonthly updates about environmental events in your area AND you happen to be an AT&T wireless customer, the company has launched a free Eco App focused on building environmental awareness. Interestingly, the carrier says the application is

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AT&T thinks green with Eco App for iPhone

Some good news and bad news today about an oft-disrespected and overused piece of technology, printers. Because one should always leave on a high-note, I’ll start with the not-so-go-great info, which is this: The Electronics TakeBack Coalition has issued a report covering the recycling and product takeback efforts of many information technology and consumer electronics companies

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Good news, bad news on the green printer front

So, one common refrain you hear from people charged with managing electricity consumption in their data center is that there is a sometimes a disconnect between the facilities and IT teams. Actually, make that often, not sometimes.

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Emerson seeks to bridge IT and facilities power management

NEC Display Solutions of America has introduced a new MultiSync EX monitor series that come with a “human” sensor that monitors activity in front of the monitor and reduced power consumption if there has been an extended period of inactivity. The monitors also include the company’s ambient light sensor technology, which adjusts the display brightness

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Sensor powers down new NEC monitor during periods of inactivity

An announcement from Xerox made last week will make solid ink printing more affordable, and possibly bring the solid ink printer into more offices – and perhaps a few homes. Xerox has added two desktop-sized printers to its ColorQube line of solid ink printers, carrying price tags that are just a fraction of what the $20,000-something ColorQube 9200 cost. The two printers – ColorQube 8570 and ColorQube 8870 – join the Xerox line that uses resin-based solid ink instead of ink or toner contained in plastic cartridges, which are found in inkjet and laser printer models

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Xerox Now Offers Desktop ColorQube Solid Ink Printers

When the Apollo Applications Project was initiated, one of the proposed projects was an orbital Workshop, made out of Apollo and Saturn materials. In early 1968 this was the proposed configuration: A “Wet Orbital Workshop”, meant to be fully fueled when launched on a spare Saturn 1B and when drained of fuel residues would be modified and used as a.. well, skylab.

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Model Of The Week: Wet Orbital Workshop (Pre-Skylab 1968 proposal: 1/96)

thought I’d better start including a scale cube in my posts, so here’s my latest creation: The Hexidecimal Ocular-comparitive measurement’o’tron : All in all, about six hours work, nothing to difficult just a bit tedious cutting out the cogs. This one I wanted to finish quickly rather than spend an extraordinary amount of time with neat and tidy. …need a good lie down.

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Model Of The Week: My Steampunk Cube…

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 28 July 2010 at 01:45:00 Users urged to download Firefox 3.6.8 and Chrome 5.0.375.125 immediately Google and Mozilla have posted security updates for their respective Chrome and Firefox web browsers. The Firefox 3.6.8 update addresses a single vulnerability in the browser’s plug-in parameter array stemming…

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Firefox and Chrome security patches released

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 00:32:00 Search firm makes a play for the hosted municipal services market Google has launched new version of its Apps cloud services aimed specifically at the government market. Apps for Government includes word processing, email and calendar functions, and web pages for…

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Google unveils Apps for Government

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 19:50:00 Patient, brilliant and better funded, warns networking firm Malicious hackers are winning the enterprise security fight, according to Cisco’s chief security officer. John Stewart said in the Cisco 2010 Midyear Security Report that the hacking industry is now…

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Hackers winning the security battle, says Cisco

Daniel Robinson, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 18:30:00 Chip giant claims first optical data link using integrated lasers Intel is claiming a milestone in optical communications with the first 50Gbit/s receiver and transmitter modules that produce their own laser light….

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Intel’s silicon photonics to revolutionise comms

Dan Worth, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 18:02:00 South Korea leads the way, while no UK city makes the top 100 Masan in South Korea is officially the world’s fastest online city, averaging a maximum connection speed of 40.5Mbit/s, according to web content firm Akamai….

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UK falls off list of world’s fastest broadband locations

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 17:18:00 Critics of the Apple tablet, meanwhile, shun conformity and value self-direction, study finds A study of 20,000 US consumers has shown some interesting personality traits in those who love or loathe the iPad….

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IPad owners a ‘selfish elite’

Khidr Suleman, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 16:54:00 Critical flaw found in iPhone app, BlackBerrys dubbed a ‘national security risk’ Apple and RIM are facing separate security problems, after an iPhone app developed by Citigroup was found to contain a critical flaw, and the United Arab Emirates claimed that BlackBerry…

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Apple and RIM battle security concerns

There’s a new study out today from Climate Savers Computing Initiative, the organization made up of several heavyweight high-tech companies focused on thwarting climate change and improving the energy efficiency of computing and communications technology. Those companies include the likes of CSC, Cisco, Dell, Google, HP, Intel, Juniper Networks, MIcrosoft and the non-profit group, the

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Climate Savers: Network gear next in quest for tech energy efficiency