Tag: Green Computing

How much power does my phone consume?

Did you ever think how much power does your cell phone consume? Yes, we know it will be negligible but once the number of consumers has grown to a very high number all around the world, the power being consumed as a whole may be significant? Let’s do some simple maths and we are not […]

Mobile Phones are better than Computers – Green Computing

What do you use your computer for? Surfing Internet, chat, gaming, social networking, downloading, desktop computing including documents, spreadsheets or presentation making or just watching your photos and videos? Today’s mobile phones are capable of doing it all, rather sometimes more than the traditional phones. They have faster processors, more ram, fasterĀ  wireless Internet connectivity […]

Netbooks are better than Notebooks – Green Computing

We have been discussing the green-computing advantage of Laptops over the Desktop computers when it comes to power consumption. Today we’ll take the discussion one step further in our green-computing section. All of us have heard about net-books, the miniature versions of the laptops/notebook PCs. Capabilities of the Netbooks are good enough for normal use, […]

One water bottle can power your whole house

Remember electrolysis from the chemistry class? Yes, the process of separating oxygen and hydrogen by decomposing water. Dan Nocera, an M.I.T chemist claims that he has found a way of using sun-light to perform a photosynthesis like process to generate energy. Nocera’s method will use carbon-dioxide, water and sunlight to convert it into oxygen and […]

Go green – Guides to green home computing and Green SME computing

This page will serve as an index to our environment friendly posts focused on green computing. Power Consumption – Laptops are Better than Desktops Monitor power consumption – CRT vs LCD How much power does my computer consume Power saving for green computing Green way of shopping online – Amazon.com Go-Green – What is it […]

Power saving for green computing

Green computing is about environment friendly ways of computing including materials used in construction, ways of use to improve power efficiency and conserve resources and once the divce has reached the end of useful life, dispose It off or recycle it in an environment friendly manner. While we will discuss other aspects on the blog […]