The Buzz About Bees
New York City is home to more than 200 species of bees, and only one makes honey. Learn about them and all the others from the experts, and hear about the Great Pollinator Project.
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Data centers generate a lot of heat. In fact, over 50 percent of the energy used by data centers is for cooling the servers, not computing. Almost all efforts to make them more efficient focus on keeping the equipment cool with less energy. But what if all that heat could be used for good? We recently wrote about the potential of using waste heat to generate electricity,
Can’t Trust the Danged Gubberment!
Two disturbing news items recently crossed my desk. The first reports that LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification — the gold standard for green buildings — has been given to buildings that are not in fact energy efficient.
A building can be designed on paper to be LEED-certified, but the way it’s actually constructed and operated can strip from it any sort of genuine
