James Governor of Redmonk recently asked me to become a Greenmonk associate.
Redmonk is an open source analyst company and Greenmonk is a closely-related though independent initiative on James’ part.
My involvement as a Greenmonk Associate means that I will now be blogging on Greenmonk regularly, as well as here (and other places!) and helping out with […]
I found a couple of very interesting sites on the state of Wind energy production in the US in the last couple of days.
The first is the website of the US Dept of Energy’s Wind and Hydropower technologies program. It includes a page which charts the rollout of wind power across the US over time.
You […]
March 28, 2008 – 12:15 am
ESB, the incumbent Irish energy company, are not renowned for being innovative but today they shocked everyone when they announced that they are going on a capital expenditure program worth €22 billion!
This has got to be the largest announced investment by a single company in Ireland in the history of the state.
Why am I reporting […]
March 27, 2008 – 11:14 am
I saw an article in the New York Business section yesterday which reported that Richard Branson hosted a high powered get together of some of the world’s top businessmen to discuss climate change. Amongst the attendees were former British prime minister Tony Blair, Google’s Larry Page, Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, Vinod Khosla, Better Place PLC.’s Shai […]
Via Tim O’Reilly today I came across Saul Griffiths‘ highly informative Wattzon.org site.
The site starts out by informing us that
The average American uses 11400 Watts of power continuously. This is the equivalent of burning 114 x100 Watt light bulbs, all the time. The average person globally uses 2255 Watts of power, or a little less […]
March 18, 2008 – 11:31 am
Dopplr is a site where you add your travel-related information and it tells you of others in your network who are making similar journeys so you can meetup. Via Ian Forrester’s blog this morning I saw that Dopplr are making your travel-related carbon footprint information available.
I failed to find the functionality in my Dopplr account […]
Microsoft is moving into a new area, energy efficiency software!
Rob Bernard, Microsoft’s new Energy Czar (his official title is Chief Environmental Strategist), in a recent interview with Cnet’s Michael Kanellos, Rob said
“I am highly familiar with the massive opportunity for software and intelligence to optimize energy control systems,” he said. “I think that buildings account […]
An article in ComputerWorld claims that companies will be spending up to three times what they spent on Y2k, on carbon accounting and sustainability reporting.
Quoting results from analyst and research firm, S2 Intelligence, the article posits that businesses will collectively spend at least US$595 billion on systems to support green accounting.
S2’s managing director, Dr Bruce […]
March 14, 2008 – 11:20 am
Ireland is famous for its picturesque green landscapes. However, climatologists think that our beautiful landscape may be under serious threat if the world continues to be profligate in its carbon emissions.
According to the recently released Changing Shades of Green report (1.8mb pdf)
Ireland’s rich, green scenery may fade to brown, its potato crop may again whither, […]
Technology Review published an interesting article the other day on some of the innovations Microsoft is rolling out to save energy in its data centres.
Microsoft Research’s Networked Embedded Computing group have developed small sensors sensitive to heat and humidity. The sensors are web-enabled and can be networked and made compatible with Web services.
In Microsoft’s case, […]
