[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
Internet Energy Efficiency
At first glance, someone looking at the numbers for the energy consumption of the Internet might say: “The Internet was using 2x more power in 2006 than in 2000! That’s terrible!” But the whole picture looks more like: “Between 2000 and 2006, Internet traffic increased by 3.2 million times yet energy consumption only […]
The building industry is not just in the sewer, it has gone a lot lower than that. So when they planned the New American Home for the International Builders Show in Las Vegas, they could have done something appropriate for the times, perhaps a Katrina cottage like the one that blew everyone away at the […]
And we thought Transformer furniture was a new idea; here is an “executive” chair that would fit right into the set on Mad Men and no doubt could be easily worked into the plot. Upholstered in Naugahyde, before Naugas were endangered. …
It used to be called the Museum of Garden History, now it’s the Garden Museum. And it used to be a shabby, down-at-the-heels space, carved out of the ground floor of a former church. And now it is a “wow”: renovated by London architects Dow Jones. The museum has been around […]
Lithium pellets covered in white lithium hydroxide. Public domain.
O Lithium, Where Art Thou?
Lithium is a soft alkali metal with a silver-white color, it is the lightest metal and the least dense solid element. Most treehuggers and electronics-geeks will be familiar with it as one of the key chemical components of lithium-ion batteries, using in portable […]
Unsold Cars, Closing Manufacturing Plants, Etc.
We all knew that people were buying fewer cars these days - and Detroit’s problems, and bailout, made lots of headlines - but this situation is global. Will it be enough to drive down worldwide oil consumption significantly? Will new, more fuel-efficient cars be on the market by the time […]
Image credit: The Guardian
Is Train Travel Really the Greenest of the Green?
Only last week I wrote about 5 high speed trains that were changing the face of rail, not only breaking speed records, but cutting emissions too. And days later Martin Frid brought us some stunning pictures of Japan’s high speed trains. So trains and […]
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Public Transit–A Tool of Appeasement?
Last November 4th I excitedly went to my local polling station to cast my ballot in the Presidential election. At the same time, I also voted on several ballot initiatives in my home state of Rhode Island, one of which had to do with funding for transportation. […]
I don’t usually watch Top Gear, BBC’s flawed, outdated - but incredibly popular - car-hugging TV show. But when they raced across Japan from Kyoto, past Mt Fuji, through the not so crowded highways in Tokyo, to Mt Nokogiri in Chiba prefecture, I just had to watch: Jeremy Clarkson in a Nissan GT-R racing without […]
Internet Energy Efficiency
At first glance, someone looking at the numbers for the energy consumption of the Internet might say: “The Internet was using 2x more power in 2006 than in 2000! That’s terrible!” But the whole picture looks more like: “Between 2000 and 2006, Internet traffic increased by 3.2 million times yet energy consumption only […]