Give up your car and get £100

"Drivers are being encouraged to give up their cars - with an offer of £100 to put towards a bicycle. The scheme has been launched by Islington council, which wants to slash carbon emissions in the borough. It...

Working Up a Black Search: Google's Energy-Friendly Homepage

UPDATE: This is looking pretty hoaxey... hence the "fishy" flag...This is one for the never-would-have-thought-of-this department, but here it is: since activating the pixels in a computer's display uses...

Intel Readies Power-Saving Quad-Core Xeons

"Intel Corp. quad-core microprocessors that work at an energy-efficient 50 watts per processor will officially be on the market starting Monday, according to the company. Each of the four cores in its new Xeon L5320 and L5310 will consume just 12.5 watts of electricity,...

How Much Electricity Does a PC Use?

It was brought up as a question in my household today. How much electricity does your computer(s) take up? My answer was a somewhat uncertain, “ummm…not much…” As usual Google beaconed and I happened onto this wonderful website that explains just how much power your...

Intel vows to triple chip performance by 2010

"Moving along a path of energy-efficient computing, Intel Corp. has pledged technology evolution in microprocessors that will improve performance per watt by 300 per cent by the end of the decade. Speaking to attendees at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel...

Soldier describes anguish in revealing murder allegations

"He decided to call his father back home. "If you knew something bad about your brothers," Watt asked him, "would you come forward?""

The Evolution of Galapagos Wind

600 miles away from mainland electric grid - too far away to connect. Wind towers 170 feet tall. Spinning blades 193 feet in diameter.

There's a problem with the electricity supply in Baghdad

Children have to do their homework by oil lamps. Electricity output has dipped to its lowest point in three years. This is just not good enough.

wind turbine kits

It appears that you can get them in flat packs. Presumably the instructions come in the box.

various designs for building your wind turbine

The power a wind turbine can harvest goes up by a factor of 4 as you double the rotor size.

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