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Green Matters: Solar Wi-Fi in Senegal

The green tech revolution isn't just contained to the world's richest nations.

Solar-powered Wi-Fi a gift to Senegal - SFGate.com

Green Wi-Fi is developing solar-powered, wireless antennas for laptops that are specially designed to handle the dust and heat and other inconveniences of life in remote areas.

In May and again in June, Baikie went to Keur Sadaro, a village in Senegal, to try to get laptops donated by the One Laptop Per Child project hooked up to the Internet. The laptops are also solar-powered.

EnergyHub minds your electricity, saves you cash - Engadget

The device uses a touchscreen control panel (familiarly referred to as a "dashboard") to help gauge and adjust energy levels for satellite outlets that it communicates with. The data will be accessible and adjustable online, and users will also be able to compare their stats with other eco-tweakers or neighbors.

Not so idle: HP earns green transport logo for business products - ZDNet Blogs

HP actually was the first company to earn the SmartWay logo back in April, although the logo certification applied strictly to its consumer accessories, desktops and monitors. But earlier this month, HP qualified all the shipping partners for its business desktops, monitors, notebooks, servers, storage products, thin clients, workstations and all its imaging and printing products.

Keeping Cool in the Server Room - ServerWatch

The movie Waterworld may have flopped at the box office, but it is making a big comeback in the data center. This has two advantages — it brings the coolant directly to the heat source, and it has 3,500 times the heat transfer capability per unit of volume compared to air.

United States Will Lead World for Third Straight Year in Annual Wind Power Installations - Treehugger

While still a small percentage of overall electric generation, there’s no denying that wind power has been growing consistently in the United States. In 2007, an additional 5,329 megawatts of capacity was added, an amount which was slightly more than a quarter of all new global wind capacity that year. Currently an additional 8 gigawatts of wind capacity is under construction and scheduled to be operational by the end of 2008.
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