Climate Savers vs. Global Warming

Google and Intel have joined forces to form the newest heavy weight tag team duo on the scene. The pair kicked off a new initiative today aimed at reducing their combined carbon output by 54 million tons a year. The energy-saving push was appropriately dubbed, “the Climate Savers Computing Initiative”. These two wasted no time! To reduce energy loss, ‘Climate Savers’ has set their sites on the 2 biggest culprits in energy waste, inefficient power converters and voltage regulators. “About half the energy in a personal computer and about the third of the energy in a server is wasted in the form of heat”, said Urs Holzle, a senior vice president at Google. ‘Climate Savers’ is advocating a steady improvement in the efficiency of both devices between now and 2010, and wants to enlist Fortune 500 companies and consumers to buy computers with the energy-efficiency improvements. “If more energy-efficient machines are adopted at a moderate pace by buyers, energy cost savings could be $5.5 billion said Pat Gelsinger”, senior vice president at Intel. Taken from Mercury News Save up to 90% off list price and save the environment too when you shop at UsedCisco.com By Joshua Levitt Syndicate the Green Your Network Blog via RSS