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SSD Electricity Savings Could Power an Entire Country
Nikkei Electronics Asia, May 8, 2009 15:21 The use of solid-state drives (SSD) could allow the world’s data centers to reduce their cumulative electricity consumption by 166,643MWH from 2008 to 2013, according to iSuppli Corp. This amounts to slightly more than the total electricity generation…
Solar Energy Performance With Plastic Solar Cells Improved With New Method
ScienceDaily, Feb. 27, 2009 The University of Alberta and the National Research Council’s National Institute (NINT) for Nanotechnology have engineered an approach that is leading to improved performance of plastic solar cells (hybrid organic solar cells). The development of inexpensive, mass-produced plastic solar panels is…
Environmental and energy balances of wood products and substitutes
The FAO Forestry Department promotes, among others, the responsible use of wood as an environmentally friendly raw material. In the last decades, wood and wood-based products have been faced with stronger competition from substitute materials, such as plastics, concrete, steel, glass or aluminium, as these…
A review of life-cycle assessment of windows
Buildings and building components, particularly windows, have been the subject of numerous studies seeking to recognize and quantify the environmental impacts caused by processes in the product life cycle.
Replacing Plastic with ‘Liquid Wood’
from EcoGeek.org by Philip Proefrock Arboform is a material made from wood components mixed with fibers and natural additives to produce a material that can be used to create domestic products that are currently made from petroleum-based plastics.