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Written by Ben Hall
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Friday, 14 December 2007 |
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With the odd new product passing through The Green Lounge, I’ve decided to do a regular series of videos that look at how much power each of these devices consume. To accomplish this, I’ve purchased a Watts Up power meter, which not only gives real time read outs of watts, amps, volts, apparent power and more, but it also has storage capacity so you can set it up to record data over a period of time. But what makes the Watts Up especially useful is that it will create a forecast for monthly power consumption based on your patterns of usage, and, after plugging in the cost of a unit (KWh) of electricity for your area, it’ll also tell you how much it will cost to run the machine.
This first video looks at the new Zonbu PC, which claims to have an average operating power of just 15 watts. Check out the video to see if their claim stands up.
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Written by Ben Hall
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Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
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Not quite Everest, but if you check out The Green Lounge gallery you’ll see that there’s been a new section added with photos from the Green California Schools Summit, which I posted about yesterday, and that finishes today. The photos were taken by the team over at Cool Green Gadgets, an excellent new site that keeps track of all that’s happening in the world of eco-friendly consumer products. | | Read more... (0 Comments) |
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Written by Ben Hall
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Wednesday, 05 December 2007 |
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Today’s the second of the 3-day Green California Schools Summit at the Pasadena Conference Center in California. California is on the leading edge of the green school movement, creating a state-wide framework and incentives for sustainable schools, and at the summit will focus on strategies, technologies and services that will ensure that new and existing public schools are models of sustainability and provide healthy learning environments for students.
And VIA will be there showcasing power efficient systems that can go a long way towards helping manage a power grid that is becoming increasingly taxed, and has already caused brown and black outs across the state.
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Written by Ben Hall
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
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 Richard Brown
Makes for a good read and gives some explanation of the thinking behind some of VIA’s decisions and strategy in this area. Worth a look. | | Read more... (0 Comments) |
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Written by Ben Hall
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Thursday, 29 November 2007 |
Today at the Church House Conference Centre in Westminster, London, Techno-Footprint is holding an event called ICT and Sustainability in the Public Sector. With large ICT systems forming a significant, and increasing, part of a modern public sector body's carbon footprint, the event aims to bring together lessons from best practice in environmental sustainability from across the field of public sector ICT.
So, there’ll be over 148 delegates from the UK Police, MOD, Social Services and various government departments wanting to learn about the value of green PCs and the new EU directives. And that’s why VIA has a team there showcasing how its products enable the design of computers that not only reduce electricity costs but also associated carbon emissions.
Since 2001, VIA has led the industry in the design of energy-efficient x86 platforms enabling a new generation of low power, small form factor computing devices. From thin clients to laptops, desktops and now the new ultra mobile devices, VIA processor platforms have built a reputation for leading performance per watt and cool operation.
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