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Berkeley Study Proves Cloud Computing is Truly Green

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:26:36 +0000

Cloud computing has been advertised lately as the way to go if you want to show off with your green IT achievements. A new report from Berkeley Lab now proves this is true and you can even calculate how green would your company’s IT infrastructure be if you switched to cloud computing. The publicly available […]

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Engineered Tobacco Leaves Produce Biofuel at Berkeley

Ovidiu Sandru — Sat, 18 May 2013 09:20:13 +0000

Instead of smoking it, we could one day use tobacco to power cars – thanks to a project at UC Berkeley, CA. A team of scientists are now using genetically modified tobacco leaves that produce oil. The researchers have worked to isolate chlorophyll from the oil that the leaves produce so that the final product […]

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Zeolite Found as Promising Methane-Capturing Material

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:49:03 +0000

When burned, methane emits only half the carbon dioxide coal does, but when released freely into the atmosphere, methane is 20 times more powerful than CO2 as a greenhouse gas, and its contribution to climate change has been estimated to 30%. A team led by Berend Smit at Berkeley performed a computer-aided study that found […]

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Black Titanium Dioxide Helps Hydrogen Ouf of Water, Berkeley Scientists Find

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:10:49 +0000

They used titanium dioxide (TiO2) whose lattice structure had been modified by changing its ordered pattern. They did that by hydrogenating the TiO2 crystals and found out that the disordered titanium dioxide they obtained was black, hence the idea that it absorbs light much better than the white one.

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