In honor of the President of the United States giving the commencement address at Arizona State University (about 3.5 miles from where I work), I dug up this blog I was writing when he first came into office. It is cool that the president is coming to my alma mater. What is not cool is that [...]
How much energy does a Google search use? According to their number crunching at their blog, Energy and the Internet, “average query uses about 1 kJ of energy and emits about 0.2 grams of carbon dioxide.” Not a lot for one search - But how does searching compare to energy use for every day items? [...]
From Inside Higher Ed this week, the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program released a report chock-full of recommendations for the federal government to bolster its commitment to the country’s community colleges and help transform them into “engines of opportunity and prosperity.” The new administration and Congress should transform our community colleges into engines of opportunity and [...]
Friday Wrap Up is where I am going to throw out a few articles and comments from news of the past week that I found interesting but didn’t get a chance to blog about. ASU West will use Solar Panels to Generate Power – Arizona State University’s West campus could get about half of its [...]
A friend, who would like to remain anonymous, sent me an email that I got me thinking so much that I asked if it could be published as a blog. Luckily, they said yes. My only source of entertainment while driving (since my radio was stolen) is my mind, and that is dangerous enough, but when my thoughts [...]
What would you do if you could figure out what device was using the most energy in your house? Many utilities are installing smart meters on people’s homes. The utilities can access the information but for the most part, the customers can’t. It is hard to change habits if you don’t know what you are doing [...]
Mike Qaissaunee was kind enough to send me this article that presents an interesting scenario: Imagine all the folks on the waiting list for the Chevy Volt or a plug-in Toyota Prius plugged in their cars at once. The result? Blackout, as the world’s largest machine (otherwise known as the electric grid) is overloaded. A [...]
While it is great to try to make our house/business energy efficient, it also comes down to what we do inside the house – turning off the lights when not needed, unplugging “always” on devices. Gordon Snyder had this great blog on Power Supply/Charger Energy Waste Explained and how keeping your chargers plugged in waste [...]
This is the last day of NPR’s energy series: Power Hungry: Reinventing the U.S. Electric Grid. Today’s stories focus on Could Energy Innovation Create a ‘Green Bubble’? and A New Grid May Be Needed, But So Are New Habits. The whole series was very interesting – there are a lot of challenges to setting up a [...]
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