Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Energy Star

“All the Thinkpad X Series Notebooks are Energy Star 4.0 Qualified”. What this means? I just read short reviews Lenovo Thinkpad X61 series when found this statement. ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy helping us all save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices. Lesson to learn is that when ever you buy electronic product please make sure that the product have ENERGY STAR label.

I am an Energy [R]evolutionary

The Greenpeace are sending a message to the world leaders who will be meeting at the G8 Summit in Tōyako, Japan. If you agree the statement below from the Greenpeace website, please sign it, and ask that the leaders of Germany, Japan, the US, Canada, Australia, France, Italy, Russia, and the UK join YOU by becoming Energy [R]evolutionaries.

I’m asking world leaders to deliver an Energy Revolution to save the climate. I'm asking for...

- A global treaty that cuts greenhouse gas emissions by more than half by 2050

- Renewable Energy supplying more than half the world's power by 2050

- Laws that dramatically improve global energy efficiency, from light-bulbs to automobiles

- Powering the world with as little coal as possible and no nuclear power

- An end to climate-endangering deforestation

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Earthquake in Honsu Japan

An earthquake occurred about 85 km (50 miles) SSE of Akita, Honshu, Japan or about 100 km (60 miles) NNW of Sendai, Honshu, Japan or about 390 km (240 miles) N of TOKYO, Japan at 5:43 PM MDT, Jun 13, 2008 (Jun 14 at 8:43 AM local time in Japan). Before in Japan, the latest earthquake is in Ganshu China, with magnitude 4.9


Source : USGS

CCLeaner : remove junk file on your drive

Not only our car, our computer also need to be maintains to make the computer running well and can save energy consumption. Just imagine if your computer take more then 5 minute to loading windows in first time, it will take more energy consumptions rather then normal computer. Use CCleaner to remove junk on your drive and get better control over your files. That’s because the CCleaner scrubs your system and removes computer-clogging junk, including files in the temp folder and Internet cache. What makes CCleaner so cool is that you can customize it so the tool deletes specific files and folders every time it runs.

Laptops for the Businessperson and Gamer

If you have planned to buy a new computer, you can save energy if you buy laptop rather then a desktop computer. Compared to desktops, laptops are smaller in size and therefore occupy less space. This is an advantage in areas with little free room like a small office or a student's dorm room. Given its small size, laptops are also easier to maintain, you don't have to worry about air vents being blocked by dusk balls, and laptops are also more cost effective as they use less electricity than desktops.

Laptops for the Businessperson:
Dell Latitude D820
Acer TravelMate 4650
HP Compaq nx9420 (2.16GHz, 1GB RAM)
Apple PowerBook G4 (17-inch)

Laptops for the Gamer:
Dell XPS M1710
Toshiba Satellite P105-S921
Toshiba Qosmio G25-AV513
HP Pavilion zd8000

Honda and Hybird Cars

Honda, the most known automotive company from Japan, expects annual sales of 200,000 for the new hybrid. Total hybrid sales, including the Civic hybrid, a new hybrid version of its popular Fit subcompact and a planned sports car based on the CR-Z concept model, are expected to reach 500,000 vehicles a year after 2010, roughly one-tenth of total sales. For you information that production of hybrid vehicles has tripled in the last four years, with production expected to double in 2007. The Yano Research Institute Ltd. estimates that by 2015, nearly 5.37 million hybrid vehicles will be on the global road, compared to less than one million last year.

Why hybird Cars

The reason is simple. Despite the high efficiency of gasoline, the fuel made pollution to environment and fuel price is getting more expensive each day. Hybrid cars run on electric motor battery that can be recharged. In addition, hybrid cars can control pollution to minimize the global warming impact. Hmmm, this gets interesting. The next issue is to find information about the total cost to product hybrid cars

Type of hybird cars

The hybrid cars combining the power of a gasoline engine of the environmental advantage of an electric motor, what most considered a better car. There are essentially two types of hybrid cars on the market today. Hybrid cars use the gasoline engine to charge the battery. The battery operates the electric motor in the car. The gasoline engine is only use where electricity supply is needed. Another type of hybrid cars is getting the power from electric motor. Hybrid cars fuel consumption is around thirty to fifty miles per gallon of gasoline.

Can hybird car save your money?

Oil prices rose above $ 135 per barrel for the first time Thursday, with concerns about supply, global demand and a weakening of U.S. dollar driving crude futures up. Oil prices is booming and that is certainly will not be more like a stay in constant prices over a long period of time.

A solution to the problem of oil prices is to change our car with hybrid car, but you know that some have said that it takes much more fuel to produce a hybrid car. If you are still using oil for any reason, to save fuel try to avoid traffic jams when you travel with your car. Another option is to work from home or at home to earn money with your laptop and Internet connection.

Wind turbines at home

Before buying, new wind turbines at home for you and your home with another source of energy, you should know the overall performance from wind in your area to create energy from your wind turbine.

Your first step is to determine, for example, how much power to produce, from your existing electrical service (bills). Explore all your kilowatts of usage per month. After that, you should know, wind power in your area. For you live in Canada, Environment Canada is the website to see the average wind speed and energy to three different heights, as well as three geographic areas (length roughness, topography, land / water mask).

Generating electricity from wind turbines

Wind... source of energy for our lives. Normally we use the electricity to the wind, do you know that we can use wind turbines to make electricity? Generating electricity from wind turbines is extremely clean sources rather then we use fuel. No pollution, non-hazardous waste, which kills the sensitive living things, nothing dangerous waste if we use wind turbines to make electricity.

The wind turbines are turning things that produce energy when the wind blown by the wind turns the leaves to roll a joint tree with a generator of electricity. The most common wind turbines that people know today is the horizontal axis turbines; they are much more efficient and are able to sufficiently large amounts of energy compared to other types of renewable energies.

For computer user

We all know that computers are not necessarily on carbon fuels, but we use the electricity for our computer every day and the amount has been used increasingly in recent decades, as more people buy PCs at home, to take the benefit from the world of computing. Can we help to minimize the global warming effect because of our computers? The answer is yes.

So, you're probably asking what solutions it can help reduce your contribution to this global warming problem. There are many opportunities to help relieve our mother earth:

* Turn off your computer, if not in use
* Make sure your state of rest at a inactivity Lesser Time
* Install free software, Free CO2 Saver to manage you computer power.
* Try to use alternative energy for your home (solar, wind, etc.)
* Try outdoor activities without a car.

EASTERN SICHUAN, CHINA EARTHQUAKE

Earthquake data in china

1. Estimated population exposed by earthquake in China

2. Population exposure map

3.Facts about earthquake in China

• Overall, the structures in this region are vulnerable to earthquakes shake, although some structures are stable. An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 suggested the Sichuan region of China on 23 August 1976 (UTC) with an assessment of exposure of the population from 1500 to IX or more intensity and in 5700 the intensity VIII, within 41 dead. In addition, a magnitude of 7.3 suggested that region in 1933, 6800 people killed. The recent earthquake in this area is also the danger of landslides, which have contributed to losses. Users should refer to the provisional nature of this information and the updates that additional data are available.

Source : USGS

Is it possible we can replace fuel with salt water?

At the molecular level, salt water forming atoms of hydrogen, oxygen, sodium and chlorine. The radio waves at a frequency to disrupt the relationship between these molecules liberator of hydrogen in the form of free gas, which burns hot in the presence of oxygen, more than 3000 degrees, which is a lot of heat.

This may have been that we never knew, and never expected, but here it can be brief.

Wood Pellets as a source of renewable energy

Today the world watches the use of wood pellets. As a source of rich natural biodegradable pastilles the energy can be essential if the gas and petroleum fuels are exhausted. One of the reasons why these wood pellets are a renewable source of energy is due to the fact that they are made of wood. Although the wood burns the carbon dioxide emissions since the factory have consumed during their growth. It is also the carbon dioxide fossils are more and more in emissions to the total emissions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Wood pellets are basically comprised of wasted sawdust in its compressed form. Today several countries such as Sweden, Northern America, Denmark as well as Austria employ the usage of this form of energy. Currently the UK offers a conducive environment for the use of such wood pellets. In fact these are being increasingly used here as a biodegradable source of energy.

Laptop Vs Desktop

World is now facing problem with energy. For people who use computer is now time to setting your computer to minimize the use of energy. Try to use laptop rather than desktop. If you are Windows XP and Windows Vista Ultimate user, try configure power management settings to get the minimize consumption of energy. Only use your laptop or desktop if you are really need and turn it off when you finish.

Solar power for your home

There is nothing radically new about learning how to solar power your house since solar energy has been around since the beginning. However, the widespread use of how to solar power your house is something that has been around for sometime but not widely used do to cost of installation and ongoing operational costs. However, due to raising fuel costs and the use of technology to make using how to solar power your house more efficient, there has been increased discussion of using this alternative energy. Despite the increased awareness most people are completely unfamiliar with the process of using this alternative energy or what costs are involved.

For those interested in having solar power for the home installed it become critical to examine the companies that provide such panels as well as the process involved with installing the panels. While this is not necessarily complicated of a process many people assume that it will be a wildly difficult installation mainly because they associate solar panels with futuristic, science fiction imagery.

What will power the "future car"?

According to most energy sages, hydrogen-powered cars will be what most of us are tooling around in several decades from now. But you don't just drill in the ground and pump out hydrogen; it has to be extracted from another source.

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and is found in many, many different molecules. Thus, it can theoretically be extracted from a wide variety of sources. But the favored sources, at least for now, are:

• water;
• natural gas, particularly methane;
• coal, via coal gasification; and
• biomass (vegetation such as wood chips and agricultural waste).

The processes for extracting hydrogen from these sources are different, particularly in the case of water. To get hydrogen gas out of water, electrolysis is used—that is, electricity is employed to strip the hydrogen molecules out of the water. Comparatively, in the case of natural gas, a "reforming" process is used.

However, no matter what the source of the hydrogen, the process requires electricity and/or other types of energy. Additionally, in the cases where fossil fuels or biomass are used as the sources, the substrates are power-plant fuels themselves, which sets up a sort of competition between using them for generating electric power and generating hydrogen.

Renewable energy

For the last 100 years or so we have been relying on fossil fuels to power our lifestyles, but this is now recognised as damaging to the environment and anyway, resources are limited. If we want to carry on enjoying our creature comforts then renewable energy is the way to do it.

Renewable energy is continually replenished by nature. Sources such as the sun, wind, water and thermal (underground) heat are harnessed rather than used up. The sun's energy can be converted using solar panels that can be placed on buildings or on posts, facing the sun.

The good news is they can be retro fitted onto the existing roof. If the roof is very old it may be worth hiring a structural engineer to confirm the load bearing capacity of your roof. Next find out how much electricity you use (your current electricity supplier will be able to let you know) and then decide what percentage of this you want your solar energy to replace. This will be a balancing trick. The price of solar panels will depend not only on efficiency but also on their capacity - also find out whether you can get any financial help from the Government or your local authority. This may depend on the system you choose.