Reminder: Greener Gadgets Conference Coming Next Week
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 01.22.08
Solar-powered? Hydrogen fuel cells? Recycled? Recyclable? What does a green gadget look like? If you're planning on going to the Greener Gadgets Conference on February 1 (next Friday) in New York City, you'll catch a glimpse of a few different visions and versions of the future of green consumer electronics. And TreeHugger can help get you in with a discount.
Type "Treehugger20" in the coupon field as you register and you'll get 20% off the listed ticket price; your ticket gets you lunch, beverages and refreshments throughout the day, access to the Event Gallery space and a ticket to the post conference cocktail reception. But you'll have to hustle; the discount is only good through this Thursday, the 24th.
More about the conference: there will be panel discussions on electronics recycling programs and emerging renewable energy sources for cell phones and laptops (like kinetic energy), and the day will finish up with a on-stage presentation and live audience judging of the Greener Gadgets Design Competition with Core77's main man, Allan Chochinov.
Topics to be discussed at the conference include: at the design for sustainability, product life cycle management, take-back and recycling programs, energy efficiency, greener materials, and green lifestyle and product marketing. An attached gallery space will feature a green prototype office display and technology exhibits from companies on the cutting edge of green tech.
And don't forget: if you are a designer with ideas up your sleeve, be sure to enter the Greener Gadgets Design Competition before the deadline of January 27th. The competition will be giving away $4500 in cash prizes to the most innovative greener gadgets designs, and your work will be displayed at the conference in front of hundreds of journalists from publications ranging from BusinessWeek to CNET to Wired, as well as reps from companies like Philips, Sony, HP & Nokia. It's a great opportunity to get your brilliant ideas out there to the people who matter, and you could win some cold hard cash in the process -- what have you got to lose? Get designing, and good luck! ::Greener Gadgets Conference and ::Greener Gadgets Design Competition
Greener gadget? Those two words together make me cringe. Kind of like green consumer. I am putting those two in the green oxymorons pile.
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Ethanol fuel has been proven to be less efficient than originally hyped due to the energy required to refine it into a useable final end -product. Therefore any investment into this technology is a cat chasing its tail towards energy independence. True alternatives are those that require little to no cost to manufacture. Solar and wind are essentially free and constant . Why these technologies arent embraced for their simplicity and obvious advantages is unbeleivable. Perhaps greed has something to do with embracing Ethanol. After all, continuing to use fuels that pollute the air seems to be in the best interest of the major oil companies and not to the end users who have to breathe the air they pollute. If we all had solar collectors generating electricity on our homes, we could fuel electric cars without polluting the air or waiting in gas lines to fuel up. That sounds alot more progressive to me. Lets support solar and wind and forget Ethanol unless you like the idea of a cat chasing its tail.
Yes, I cringe at the hype surrounding ethanol right now, too. However, given what I'm reading about the research into using algae instead of corn or soybeans as the fuel source, I'm remaining optimistic. Maybe corn and soybeans are necessary stepping stones, to get the interest (and infrastructure?) going, while the MUCH more efficient algae-based ethanol production develops into a viable alternative.
I'm hoping...
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One easy obvious way to "go green" would be to force the chip makers to a "5 watt"-max TDP designs.
Today, Intel makes Ultra Low Voltage chips that uses maximum 5 watt and has the same power as the same chip that uses 70-80 watt...That is hugely wasteful since it is 14-16 times more energy that those chips use even though they have exactly the same power/performance.
Now that car makers have a 35mpg standard - why not do the same thing for chips? Make a 5 watt TDP maximum - that would save huge amounts of power.
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