PowerNap plan could save 75 percent energy consumed by data centres

September 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists in Singapore and Switzerland have suggested that converting the trash that fills the world's landfills into biofuel could cut global carbon emissions by 80 percent. Biofuels produced from crops have proven controversial because they require an increase in crop production that has its own severe environmental costs.

August 28th, 2009 Poll: Americans support Obama on energy issuesWASHINGTON — A new poll says most Americans support the way President Barack Obama is dealing with energy issues, including his plan to limit greenhouse gases with a controversial cap-and-trade approach. A Washington Post-ABC News poll published Friday finds that while support is slipping for the president's heath-care proposals, support for his changes in energy policy remains firm.

August 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new study, scientists have determined that at least some of the European early modern humans consistently consumed fish 40,000 years ago, supplementing their diet of terrestrial animals. The study was carried out by Erik Trinkaus, professor of anthropology at Washington University in St.

August 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has shown that micro flying robots that hover like flies can save up to 50 percent energy if they swing an insect wing around like a helicopter blade. Previously, engineers have long been stymied in their attempts to fabricate micro aerial robots that can match the amazing flight capabilities of nature's most advanced flying insects - flies.

August 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Indian outsourcer HCL Technologies has acquired its first data centre in the US from one of its customers, a report here said. HCL actually acquired the data centre in October but delayed announcing it until this month pending the upgrade of the facility.

June 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - An Indian-origin researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology is working on new heat transfer models that can be used in future data centre facilities to reduce the portion of electricity used to cool their equipment by as much as 15 percent. "Computers convert electricity to heat as they operate.

May 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A three-tier security system and nearly 2,000 police personnel will be in place in the national capital to avoid any untoward incident on counting day May 16, election officials said Thursday. 'There will be a three-tier cordoning system in place in all the counting centres on May 16.

April 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Personal computers may soon save large amounts of energy by 'sleep talking'. Doctoral researcher Yuvraj Agarwal of the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in collaboration with computer scientists has created a plug-and-play hardware prototype for personal computers (PCs) that induces a new energy saving state known as 'sleep talking'.

March 21st, 2009 KOLKATA - The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has proposed to set up an exchange for renewable energy, a top official said here Friday. 'There would be a national exchange kind of a thing where registration of renewable energy would be done,' CERC chairman Pramod Deo said during an interaction with members of the Merchants Chamber of Commerce here.

February 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Wednesday launched Bachat Lamp Yojna, an energy scheme aimed at saving 10,000 MW of power in the next three years. Under the scheme, the government would distribute less power consuming compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) at a price of Rs.15 to replace existing bulbs.

February 4th, 2009 BERLIN - Russia and Germany plan to establish a joint agency on energy efficiency and power saving by April, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said here. 'We have settled the date - the company should be established no later than April,' the minister said Wednesday.

February 2nd, 2009 NEW YORK - US department store chain Macy's said Monday it will eliminate about 7,000 positions as part of a restructuring effort designed to save money as consumers have scaled back their spending. The jobs amount to about 4 percent of the second-largest US department store's workforce of 180,000 and come amid tens of thousands lay-offs at US companies in recent weeks.

February 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), for the first time, started computerised citizen service centres, where people will be able to make municipal transactions without queuing up at the KMC headquarters, a top official said Tuesday. The two centres, named 'e-Kolkata Citizen Service Centre', were inaugurated Tuesday at Kasba and Kankurgachi areas in southern and northeastern parts of the city respectively.

January 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Tuesday announced it would set up citizen facility centres in each of the capital's 272 wards to receive complaints about civic issues. According to the MCD, citizens will be able to lodge complaints about sanitation, cleanliness, road repair, water logging, felling of trees and other issues at the centres and 'prompt' solutions would be delivered.

December 27th, 2008 NEW DELHI - Enrolment at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is estimated to cross two million by January 2009, the university said Sunday. The current percentage of enrolment amounts over 15 percent of the entire higher education enrolment in the country.