From USA Today… Leaving PCs on overnight costs companies $2.8B a year We’ve always known this wasteful behavior has a cost associated with it. Now, it has a number assigned to it and it is a big one. Windows users can Hibernate their PC. It works reasonably well on XP and Vista though it is [...]

Interesting real-life report from ExtremeTech’s Loyd Case… Going Solar: The Install …where he describes the experience of converting his home to run mostly on solar power.

The gas saving myths discussed in this article are: Fill your tank early in the day Replace air filters for better mileage Buy fuel additives Turn of air conditioner and roll down windows Auto advances make gas advice moot Rolling down the windows probably probably disrupts the car’s aerodynamic properties. But, you would think cranking [...]

According to this CNET item… Dell hits server efficiency targets a year early …a Dell server power supply is now 92% efficient when a server is at 50% load. This efficient power supply is not available in their current server lineup yet though.

Surprising info in this PC World article… Which Gadgets Gobble the Most Power?

News.com reports that…   Best Buy to recycle electronics free This is not nationwide, however. According to the article, it is limited some (not all?) stores in Baltimore, San Francisco, and Minnesota (the whole state?). Best Buy Recycling information page

Just read this article in USA Today… Report ranks metro areas on pollution Honolulu had the lowest CO emission. But, surprise, LA-Long Beach-Santa Ana ranked #2 in the lowest CO emission list.

Just read about a new proposed data center metric called Corporate Average Data Efficiency (CADE) in this Information Week article… McKinsey: Measure Data Center Efficiency Like Car Fuel Efficiency The article says that this metric… combines both IT and facilities costs to monitor energy use, and create “energy czar” positions to manage energy efficiency.

From MSNBC… The ‘green’ way to dump electronic junk The article provides tips and actual web links (unlike CMP Techweb which always forces me to search for things they mention) to site providing information about reselling, donation, recycling, and other green practices for electronic junk disposal.

ZDNet reacts to Gartners’ Windows’ sky is falling commentary with an article titled… Windows is a glacier and glaciers don’t melt overnight But, according to CNN… Lake in Chile empties from melting glacier Melting ice in southern Chile caused a glacial lake to swell and then empty suddenly, sending a “tsunami” rolling through a river, [...]