NEWSBRIEFS: NDRC, Yahoo, IBM, Mapletree
NEWSBRIEFS: NDRC, Yahoo, IBM, Mapletree
By Green Channel Staff | Oct 8, 2010
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China needs to cut its energy consumption per unit of GDP by 5% in order to reach the energy efficiency target set out in the 2006-2010Five-Year Plan, a senior National Development and Reform Commission official said.
Yahoo has unveiled its most energy-efficient data center in Niagara County, New York, using its own design, called the Yahoo! Computing Coop, It has a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.08, compared with the industry average of 1.92.
IBM has released CityOne, a simulation game designed to help business and civic leaders make their cities and industries smarter by solving real-world business, environmental, and logistical problems.
The US and 37 other countries, along with the European Commission, the Asian Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, have launched a campaign to cut methane gas emissions. The US EPA has pledged $50m to the program.
Scientists at Washington State University have proposed building a massive 8,400-kilometer-wide solar sail to harvest the power in solar wind, which would generate 1 billion billion gigawatts of power – if they can somehow transmit it back to Earth.
Singapore business hub Mapletree Business City (MBC) has won a Trane energy efficiency award for its green design, aimed at saving S$2.5m in peak energy costs.
