Tag archive: energy efficiency

At the Intel Development Conference in San Francisco today, CEO Paul Otellini unveiled the company's vision of new chips that will drastically decrease power consumption in the Ultrabook laptops. Thanks to the chips, Intel believes that by 2013 their laptops will be able to leap a full 24 day with a single charge, and have the ability to go 10 days on “connected” standby. Intel's Ultrabooks is an answer to the MacBook Air. Sleek,… Read More

Bold claims of superiority have been known to occur throughout the course of the browser wars. But Microsoft has taken the rhetoric into new territory after announcing that the latest iteration of its Internet Explorer is the most energy-efficient browser on the market. To reach that conclusion, Microsoft tested IE9 against Firefox 4, Safari 5, Chrome 10 and Opera 11. Microsoft tested each browser's energy consumption on an Intel laptop by… Read More

You will no longer be able to buy incandescent light bulbs from Ikea. The company has announced it will no longer stock or sell the bulbs as of Tuesday of this week. “As the largest home furnishings store, we are constantly looking at ways to help support our customers with every day environmentally responsible solutions that will improve their lives.” said Mike ward, president of Ikea's U.S. operations, in a… Read More

Energy-efficient technology for batteries, grids and power storage will be trendy in 2010, according to a study released Wednesday on clean energy technology. Even as the use of solar and wind power expands, conserving energy and using it more efficiently will draw more interest from companies and investors, the PricewaterhouseCoopers study found.

The state of California often leads the rest of the United States on environmentally-conscious regulation and legislation, perhaps most notably with a long-term effort to reign in motor vehicle emissions. Now, the state has turned its attention to televisions, adopting energy efficiency standards that will be imposed on new televisions starting in January 2011—and then get even tougher in 2013. “In California, televisions (along… Read More