I’ve just come across a paper from Intel published earlier this year that looks at the electrical efficiency of computation over time. 
The paper explores the relationship between the performance of computers and the electricity needed to deliver that performance and comes to the conclusion that computations per kWh have been growing about as fast as [...]

As a reminder of why Copenhagen is important, some bad news from the last couple of weeks:
- According to a report called ‘The Federal Energy Domain’ from FedSources, US federal government energy consumption is set to rise from $21.2bn in fiscal 2009 to $28.8bn in 2010, a 36% increase.  A major driver is war spending, [...]

It’s now possible to see how companies in different geographies and industry sectors are tackling climate change while you’re on the move, thanks to SAP bringing CDP data to the iPhone.
 
Roambi provides the platform for displaying the data and on its web site it shows several samples.  One data set shows the levels of CDP [...]