Qualcomm says its Mirasol displays, which use reflective technology to display the spectrum of colours instead of active lights, can reduce the carbon emissions from gadgets over their life time of use. The Mirasol display technology works by mimicking the wings of a butterfly, which basically have no colour on their own, but reflect specific [...]

A university researcher has called for telecommunications operators to offer up their subsea cable infrastructure to help with climate monitoring. John Yuzhu You, a scientist at Sydney University, says that submarine cables laying at the bottom of the sea can help climate change scientist monitor key changes in world’s environment, including ocean currents, salinity, seismology [...]

PRESS RELEASE: BEND, ORE, USA, August 9, 2010 – IdaTech plc (AIM: IDA), a global leader in the development and manufacture of clean and reliable PEM fuel cell products for the critical backup power market is pleased to announce the Phase III roll out of the latest generation hydrogen backup power fuel cell systems on [...]

Orange, Connecticut-based, (not-California-based) Tangoe, Inc., has launched a new mobile device reuse-retire-recycle program called, Tangoe MobileRenew. According to Tangoe, the service offers much more than just the recycling of corporate mobile communication devices environmentally, but provides enterprises with a “secure, compliant, and financially beneficial means” of handling all end-of-life mobile devices. “Organizations that have struggled [...]

A new technology that can save as much as 80% on Ethernet networks is now being finalised by the industry. The new standard, called Energy Efficient Ethernet or EEE – also dubbed IEEE 802.3az, brings in a feature called, “low power idle mode,” which allows network equipment to save energy when no carrying traffic. According [...]

I came across this site with a video of Vint Cerf talking about smart grids at ConnectivityWeek. Part 1 The presentation by Cerf is entertaining and full of anecdotes about the early days of the Internet. He obviously has put some thought into smart grids, describing it as a ‘massive transformation’ and ‘such a complex [...]

The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solution, or ATIS, says it will soon announce a standard methodology for measuring the efficiency of wireless base stations. The news comes just weeks after ETSI, or the Europe Telecommunications Standards Institute, announced a similar standard of measurement called, Energy Efficiency of Wireless Access Networks.

As we noted a while back, the energy industry is becoming a lot like the telecoms industry. From what was traditionally national grids, the energy sector is going increasingly cross border. The notion is not new since subsea power transmission cables have been in place to deliver energy from power rich markets to power starved [...]

The recent heatwave that hit New York City was mitigated by some smart technologies from the utility company, Con Edison. According to various reports, such as this one, the utility was able to avoid a potential brown or black out because it was able to control the consumption of electricity from some 20,000 homes and [...]

The Obama administration is reportedly readying the announcement of an international smart grid effort that will help establish international standards for smart electricity networks. The International Smart Grid Action Network, or ISGAN, will promote standardisation of smart grid technologies through voluntary government participation, according to various reports such as this blog post. International cooperation on [...]