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The Internet’s Carbon Footprint
Please consider the environment before not printing this page. That request asking you to kindly not print your last email might have the best of intentions for our environment, but it fails to take into account a major factor which influences the “sustainability” of your decision; the internet. Advice related to paper and the environment [...]
Energy Efficiency: Is It The Real Deal?
According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), peak electric loads in the U.S. are 20,800 MW lower than they would be without utility energy efficiency programs[1]. If it is correct it represents perhaps 100 power plants that did not need built that would have otherwise been required. Similarly, the EIA data shows that electric usage [...]
SunPower to Measure and Report its Carbon Footprint $SPWRA
We talk a lot on this blog about how solar panels can cut monthlyelectricity costs and, in some states (like New Jersey, California,Arizona, Hawaii, Colorado and Pennsylvania) offer homeowners astunningly attractive return on investment. Sometimes it’s worthremembering, however, that solar panels produce clean, emissions-freeelectricity. In other words, solar power can be good for your checkbookand [...]
How Big is a Solar Panel’s Carbon Footprint?
People are quick to point out that solarpanels have a carbon footprint that enthusiasts often forget. Eventhough this is true, a solar panel’s carbon footprint is at least 20times smaller than that of coal. Based on the most cited study, conducted by Danish utility Vattenfall in 1999, solar photovoltaics produce 50 grams of carbon dioxide [...]
Applied’s Environmental Footprint
In 2007, Applied Materials set goals forimproving its environmental footprint worldwide. These goals were basedon a thorough understanding of current operations made possible throughseveral years of collecting relevant information. We started with the facilities we knew best — our Silicon Valley, Austin and Israel operations ? but we knew that those locations weren’t thewhole story. [...]
UAE Heroes of Carbon Footprint Reduction
Recently,I learned The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has the highest per capitaecological footprint in the world – if every person in the world livedand consumed natural resources like an average UAE resident, we wouldrequire 4.5 planets to sustain the consumption levels! More than 80% ofits carbon footprint is due to carbon intensive goods and services,such [...]
Lowering Chip Manufacturing’s Carbon Footprint
Lotsof innovation in the semiconductor industry goes towards making chipsmore energy-efficient. Less attention is paid to lowering the carbonfootprint of the chip manufacturing process itself. Now, Applied’s engineers have developed a smart technology thatconserves resources by synchronizing the process tools in the fab withtheir support systems in the subfab. The new technology can reduce CO2 [...]