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From Waste to Fuel: The Rocky Road of Lignocellulosic Ethanol In the race against climate change, lignocellulosic ethanol emerges as a dark horse. This second-generation
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New York State was recognized as a national leader in energy efficiency policy and program implementation in the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s (ACEEE) 2011 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard released today.
The 2011 Scorecard provides an overview of the progress made by states in advancing energy efficiency programs and policy in the residential, commercial, industrial and transportation sectors. State rankings were determined in six areas that included utility and public benefits programs and policies, transportation policies, building energy codes, combined heat and power, state government initiatives and appliance efficiency standards.
New York moved up to third in the overall state rankings this year after ranking fourth in 2010. Massachusetts was ranked first this year, followed by California.
As 2012 nears, there has been a torrent of media reports about light bulb hoarders snatching up every old-school incandescent not already screwed into a socket. That’s because, in January, 100-watt incandescent light bulbs will have to become about one-third more energy efficient, followed in succeeding years by similar standards for 60- and 40-watt bulbs. Incandescent bulbs won’t be “banned” but try telling that to these latter-day cousins of those who clung to their rabbit ears in 2009 even as television stations switched to digital.
The two groups share the belief that technological progress has gone into reverse and instead of making our lives better, it will now make them steadily worse. The defenders of Edison argue that compact fluorescent lamps, or CFLs, the technology poised to take over, are full of toxic mercury (in reality, there are only trace amounts) and radiate cold light. They further argue superefficient light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are too expensive for widespread adoption. It’s a feeling that spans the political spectrum, uniting Michele Bachmann and The Village Voice. (For an informed back on forth on incandescent hoarding, check out this thread on Candle Power Forums.)
Txchnologist, NOVEMBER 7TH, 2011, BY MORGEN E. PECK
Think cloud. Now think rain. Now think spring. Now think green.
Now think again.
The term “cloud computing” may create associations of environmental harmony, but just like real clouds, cloud services are unpredictable, difficult to quantify, and prone to sudden bursts of growth and activity. These qualities have researchers and even some advocates questioning how green cloud computing is and how green it can be. The answer seems to depend almost entirely on how we use it.
Cloud computing is efficient in concept. Companies that once had to provide all the infrastructure for their computing and storage needs can now shift the load to service providers. Businesses are beginning to keep documents and email in the cloud and access them with software that they no longer have to own. When all of this work moves into the cloud, it gets consolidated by companies like Google and Microsoft that have spent many years optimizing their data centers to be energy efficient. These massive investments in efficiency will result in data center energy consumption being cut by one-third by 2020, according to the green tech analyst firm Pike Research.
