What follows is a joint blog post by Danny Cullenward and Jonathan G. Koomey. To freely download the journal article in which we dissect the Saunders article on rebound, click here. Our article will be freely downloadable until January 20, 2016. ________________________________________________________________ Summary: About once a decade, a slew of popular
Read moreMy colleague Richard Hirsh and I just published our article in The Electricity Journal titled “Electricity Consumption and Economic Growth: A New Relationship with Significant Consequences?”. The Electricity Journal. vol. 28, no. 9. November 2015. pp. 72-84. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040619015002067] The data tell an interesting
Read moreOn October 13, 2015 at 9am PDT, Anthesis Group and World Resources Institute are partnering to bring you an informative free webinar on the new Scope 2 emissions reporting protocol from WRI’s Greenhouse Gas Protocol Team. Here are the details: The webinar will review the details adopted in the
Read moreCyclotron Road is building a new model to advance breakthrough energy technologies. Our purpose: support critical technology development for your project while helping you identify the most suitable business models, partners, and financing mechanisms for long term impact. By joining Cyclotron Road, innovators receive a salary and seed funding, support
Read moreAt hearings yesterday about Planned Parenthood, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) put up the chart above. This tweet gives the apparent source of the graph, which is an anti-abortion organization. Abortion is of course a highly charged issue, and feelings run high, but there is no excuse for making a chart
Read morejgkoomey: Cern datacenter Photo credit: By Hugovanmeijeren (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons I’ve been struggling for years to convince executives in large enterprises to fix the incentive, reporting, and other structural problems in data centers. The folks in the data center know
Read moreImage: Critical data centre at University of Hertford. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike Unported 3.0 license. The Wall Street Journal today has an article by Bob McMillan highlighting my work with Anthesis and TSO Logic on zombie servers (those that are using electricity but delivering no useful
Read moreData Center Dynamics just published my article titled “Modernizing enterprise data centers for fun and profit”, which describes the rationale for my upcoming online class. That class starts October 5, 2015. Here are the opening paragraphs: Twenty first century data centers are the crown jewels of global business. No modern
Read moreCern datacenter Photo credit: By Hugovanmeijeren (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons I’ve been struggling for years to convince executives in large enterprises to fix the incentive, reporting, and other structural problems in data centers. The folks in the data center know that
Read moreThis morning we did an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit, focusing on our Oil Climate Index (OCI) and the related interactive web tool. I hadn’t done one of these before, and I was pleasantly surprised at how well it turned out (go here to take a look). Anyone
Read moreThe team at Carnegie just created a useful infographic for our Oil-Climate Index and the accompanying OCI web tool. I’m often skeptical of infographics, because they can be oversimplified, but this one seems to capture the essence of our work without doing violence to accuracy. Please let me know
Read moreI’ve been working with Jon Taylor of Anthesis Group and Aaron Rallo of TSO Logic to compile data on servers in enterprises that are using electricity but generating no useful computing output (we call these comatose servers). Until now, it has been difficult to compile data on idle servers
Read moreI’ve been working for the past couple of years with Deborah Gordon of Carnegie, Adam Brandt of Stanford, and Joule Bergeson of the University of Calgary, on open source data and tools to assess the life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of different oils, summarizing them in our Oil-Climate
Read moreDave Roberts of Vox recently posted an article about the climate problem titled “The awful truth about climate change no one wants to admit”, the point of which he summarizes as “barring miracles, humanity is in for some awful shit.” This conclusion is true even if we manage to keep
Read moreSteve Lohr of the NY Times wrote a nice article about smart homes that will appear in tomorrow’s NY Times business section (April 23, 2015). The issue for residential efficiency efforts like this is that the savings are often small in absolute terms, and transaction costs can be high.
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