Late last year on October 3, 2013, I had the pleasure of interviewing Paul Lally, the producer, writer, and director of an educational program from 1977 called “Space Station L-4.” Now, Paul is the Executive Producer of Caio Italia with Mary Ann Esposito. Space Station L-4 was distributed by Children’s Television International and shown on …
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DVRs and Cable Boxes Use Too Much Electricity Even When Turned Off
Slashdot.org covers the recent findings reported in the New York Times that DVRs and Cable Boxes Top List of Home Energy Hogs. The Times article by Elisabeth Rosenthal is available here. I miss the rotary cable box that my family had when I was a child. It required no power and it had only two coaxial …
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Laptop Computers Use Less Operational Energy Over Life Than The Energy Required to Build Them
I saw Michael Cooney’s report, Layer 8: Computer factories eat way more energy than running the devices they build, linked on SlashDot.org this morning. Cooney details a study from the Journal of Cleaner Production that establishes, at least with modes of production in 2002 of laptop computers by Dell, that the energy required to build a …
ICFA 2009, Friday Dinner
Tonight, I walked about two miles from the hotel in search of a better place to enjoy a vegetarian-oriented meal. This is only my first full day of attempting to avoid meat to build some karma surplus for Yufang’s upcoming comprehensive exams. Talking with Ritch Calvin, VP of SFRA and my ICFA roommate, gave me …
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