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The Energy Supercomputer
A new water-cooled 155 teraflop supercomputer dubbed “BlueM” will allow scientists at the Colorado School of Mines to run large simulations in support of the university’s core research areas while operating at the forefront of algorithm development using a powerful hybrid system. The system will be housed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) [...]
IBM’s Next Generation Solar Array
The company sometimes called itty bitty machines, IBM, which revolutionized the personal computer, is bringing its technological knowhow to solar through a new partnership with Airlight Energy, ETH Zurich and Interstate University of Applied Sciences Buchs NTB. The group recently won a three-year, $2.4 million grant from the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation to [...]
In Focus: Futuristic Green Energies
The Time Lists has released its ‘Top 20 Green Tech Ideas’, and what a list it is. At Decipher CM, we’ve picked our Top 5 favourite futuristic green energies to share with the new breed of technological hippies out there. 1. Biofuels One of the ‘green industries’ best kept secrets is biofuels. This includes products [...]
Facebook Announces Real-Time Data Center Efficiency Stats
Facebook has just taken a bit of internal data center energy efficiency wizardry and made it available to the world. On Thursday, it opened access to the minute-by-minute power-use effectiveness (PUE) and water-use effectiveness (WUE) scores via dashboards for its Prineville, Ore. and Forest City, N.C. data centers, and promises to have its next super-efficient [...]
2012′s Greenest Companies
Throughout the last year, many of the wealthiest companies around the globe put millions of company dollars towards environmental preservation projects. As many industrial fields look into “greener” methods of production and operations, they have also donated funding to charitable efforts that promote sustainability, reduce pollution, and protect wildlife. Looking back at six of the [...]
3 Takeaways from SPI 2012
Despite my less-than-desirable hotel accommodations and muggy Florida weather, the recent Solar Power International (SPI) 2012 conference in Orlando was a success on many fronts, including as a powerful testament to the solar industry’s rapid growth and broad popularity, even in the currently challenging economic environment. There was a tremendous amount of fascinating discussion at [...]
The Green Building Retrofit Boom
The liberal mantra, “go green” is finding its mainstream voice. Nowhere is this more evident than in our nation’s urban areas. Easing the pollution of our congested areas, investing in our nation’s future by recycling its’ past, in short, going green, while giving city’s a facelift, it’s all part of a new trend. At first [...]
Applied Materials’ Battered Stock: Time to Buy?
Applied Materials (AMAT), the nation’s biggest maker of semiconductor-fabrication equipment, has one of the richest dividend yields among major technology companies., including Microsoft (MSFT), Intel (INTC), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Oracle (ORCL) and Apple (AAPL), which later this summer begins paying a quarterly dividend. INTC Dividend Yield data by YCharts Since initiating a dividend in 2005, Applied [...]
IBM Software to Power NYC Solar Hub
In an innovative project to bring solar to cities across the world and reduce the costs of solar, New York City is creating a Solar Energy Hub. Using IBM’s intelligent software platform for Smarter Cities, the output of every solar system in the city can be seen in real time, giving crucial information on whether [...]