Super Computers in Hot Water: Data Center Knowledge reports, “IBM has delivered a supercomputer cooled by hot water to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), which IBM says marks “a new era in energy-aware computing.””
Toyota’s Batteries vs Tesla’s: Venkat Srinivasan’s take on Toyota’s and Tesla’s different battery choices — “One is going for incremental, the other revolutionary, one prefers an appliance-like vehicle, the other a “sexy” ride, one could be considered boring, while the other could be considered a bit brash. No prizes for guessing which one is which.”
The Left Brain has Failed At Building A Climate Change Movement: Bill McKibben writes, “Right now the left brain really isn’t doing the trick . . . You don’t build movements with bar graphs. You build them, in part, with art. With painting and with music and with graffiti and with dance and with concerts and with everything that engages the right brain.”
And You Thought the BP Oil Spill was Bad: Scientists have taken a look at the environmental effects of a dead zone created by corn ethanol production in the Gulf Coast region, and determined it could be as bad for the environment as the BP oil spill.
Latin American Clean Energy Coming Soon: “Latin America is poised to be the next region of the world to embrace clean energy in a significant way with major new investment to flow there in the next several years, global clean energy and research data provider Bloomberg New Energy Finance predicts in a new report.”
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