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Project Natick: Microsoft Tests Putting Data Centers Under the Sea – NBC News
Data centers store massive amounts of information that our computers and smartphones access every day from 'the cloud.' Source: Project Natick: Microsoft Tests Putting Data Centers Under the Sea - NBC News
Containers transform steel mill into modular data center
Modular data center design can have many different interpretations, but for Keystone NAP, it means using containers inside an old steel factory. Source: Containers transform steel mill into modular data center FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa.—A data center outside Philadelphia is...
2015 was warmest year since records began in 1880
Both NOAA and NASA report that 2015 was the planet's warmest year since records began in 1880. Source: 2015 was warmest year since records began in 1880 WASHINGTON, D.C.—2015 was the Earth's warmest year since records began in 1880, the National Oceanic and...
New plastic solar cell minimizes loss of photon energy
TOKYO—Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and Kyoto University’s Department of Polymer Chemistry have developed a new polymer that can minimize energy loss when used in solar cells. This would enable the cheaper polymer cells to become as...
City of Las Vegas plans to go to 100 percent renewable energy
LAS VEGAS—Las Vegas plans to meet all of its energy needs through renewable sources. The city announced Dec. 8 that it has agreed to a three-year arrangement with local utility NV Energy. Las Vegas currently supplies about 40% of its load through city-owned solar and...
This Building Doesn’t Need A/C: The Building Itself Is An Air Conditioner
AMSTERDAM—A hotel that can cool itself without the use of electricity, electric fans or other standard power sources is planned for Amsterdam. Called the “first (nearly) zero-energy hotel” by its developer, the building’s design is the brainchild of Ben Bronsema, an...
World’s Largest Solar Power Plant in Ouarzazate, Morocco | Digital Trends
The world’s largest solar power plant will be constructed in the desert of Ouarzazate to fuel more than half Morocco’s energy needs by the year 2020.
Multi-Family HVAC Systems Comparison
Packages (PTACs & VTACs) or Split Direct Expansion (DX) Air Conditioning System with Electric Heat: Each residential unit will be served by individual air conditioning unit with electric heating coil. In the case of using split systems, fan coil units will be...
Storage advance may boost solar thermal energy potential
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-storage-advance-boost-solar-thermal.html#jCp Engineers at Oregon State University have identified a new approach for the storage of concentrated solar thermal energy, to reduce its cost and make it more practical for wider use....
Harvard University laboratory update
http://www.hpbmagazine.org/Case-Studies/Sherman-Fairchild-Laboratory-Cambridge-MA/ Harvard University chose to breathe new life into the existing Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Building as a case study to develop the laboratory of the future within an existing...
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