Bruce Springsteen was right: “From small things, Mama, big things one day come.” In the case of the University of Michigan (U-M), a small phone call helped set off an ambitious campus-wide programme to reduce computing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. OK, maybe the phone call wasn’t quite
Intel
While SpectraWatt may be a name better suited to a nefarious criminal gang on the wrong side of The Avengers, it’s actually the new solar unit that chip giant Intel has spun off. (Greenbang has always been afraid of the term spin-off: she imagines a company pirouetting through the
electricity
Do you want to know how much Intel’s investment arm, Intel Capital, invested in smart grid company Grid Net? Do you? Huh? Huh? Well, Greenbang’s not going to tell you. So there. Not because she doesn’t want to mind – Greenbang’s not like that – but because she
china
Think Intel and you probably think of a jingle that goes dink dink DINK DINK and back in the dark mists of history also featured blue men mucking about in some paint. Or something. If you need to purge that gruesome image from your delicate mind and find a more