Posts Tagged ‘printer cartridge’
Monday, February 8, 2010
Installing Solar Panels On Earth
Posted By Brad Roderick
I would like to share with you a stunning article from landartgenerator.org about how to power our planet by using solar energy solely. The small amount of solar panels required to install on the surface of earth will provide clean energy.
Total Surface Area Required to Fuel the World With Solar
According to the US Department of Energy (Energy Information Administration), the world consumption of energy in all of its forms (barrels of petroleum, cubic meters of natural gas, watts of hydro power, etc.) is projected to reach 678 quadrillion Btu (or 7.15 exajoules) by 2030 – a 44% increase over 2008 levels (levels for 1980 were 283 quadrillion Btu and we stand at around 500 quadrillion Btu today).
I wonder what surface area would be required and what type of infrastructural investment would be required to supply that amount of power by using only solar panels. To create fuel that can be used in vehicles and equipment I am assuming that some of the electricity generated would be used to create hydrogen. We should all start wondering about these things since we will have really no other choice* by the turn of the next century.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
TIME Magazine covers Options on Cutting Carbon
Posted By: Leslie Fischer
It looks like the world is going green and getting greener! Here is an interesting article I found discussing a plausible solution to cut carbon. Some industry leaders in developing sustainable energy solutions think the solution to this problem is right under our noses (and feet, for that matter), with an innovative process called carbon capture and storage, or CCS.
Cutting Carbon: Should We Capture and Store It?
By SIMON ROBINSON / ABU DHABI Friday, Jan. 22, 2010
In the push to cut the amount of carbon we release into the atmosphere, solutions usually focus on how to reduce our power use (drive less, insulate our houses better) or how to replace our carbon fuels (coal, oil) with renewable sources (solar, wind, biofuels).
But even in the most optimistic scenario, we will be using fossil fuels such as coal for years to come. China and India aren’t going to suddenly shut down all their new coal power plants, nor will Western industrial giants close their factories overnight. Solar and wind may be today’s sexy new energy sources, but coal is the fastest-growing fuel in the world, boasting twice the known gas reserves and three times the known oil reserves. “Coal is here to stay,” Milton Catelin, head of the World Coal Institute, told the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi on Jan 19.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
InkCycle/ Grenk featured in the Kansas City Business Journal
Posted By: Brad Roderick
Recession leads to Rebirth of Recycled Ink Cartridges. Check out this article explaining how Grenk thrives in economic downturn from the Kansas City Business Journal:
InkCycle gets second crack at growth
Like its recycled products, InkCycle is undergoing a rebirth.
The printer cartridge remanufacturing business, started in Rick Krska’s garage in 1992, peaked at 790 employees in 2006. But the loss later that year of a national account to remanufacture Hewlett Packard cartridges for retailer Staples caused the Lenexa-based company’s employment to drop to about 210.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Green Up Your Office: Tips From Grenk’s Brad Roderick
Posted By: Brad Roderick
Over the last few years, there are better practices to be able to remanufacture, recycle, reduce and reuse materials than there ever have been before. I wanted to provide some tips and suggestions to green up your office. Some of the suggested office changes are energy saving lights, eco-friendly flooring, using recycled copier paper and replacing company vehicles with hybrids.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
How about a side of some recycled ink with those 350 million sheets of printed paper from Twitter; reuse, recycle, remanufacture
Posted By: Brad Roderick
I would like to share an article from Mashable staff writer Jennifer Van Grove. The article proposes the question: what would happen if you tried to print twitter? Maybe we should use recycled ink before printing those 350 million sheets of paper on Twitter.
If You Printed Twitter It Would Cover 350 Million Sheets of Paper [Infographic]
What would happen if you tried to print Twitter? The folks at CreativeCloud have done the imagining for us and come up with an impressive and detailed graphic that answers the big what-if question.
Each of the seven mind-blowing graphical conclusions sum up the printed Twittermathematical figures in real-life ways and highlight just how much paper and money it would take to print out the entire microblogging site. Now just try to image what would happen if you tried to print Facebook.
Per the intriguing graphic embedded below, if you printed Twitter …
- … the seven billion tweets to date are composed of 104,860,000,000 words, as many as 133,000 copies of the the King James version of the Bible.
- … it would cover 350 million sheets of paper, which is 37 times the number of pages used in bills introduced in the United States Congress since 1955.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Consumer Electronics Show 2010: Trends of the New Year, innovation and sustainability is a large focus for technology companies this year
Posted by: Brad Roderick
Experiencing first hand all of the innovative and green focused products at the CES 2010, I want to share this article by Shayne Rana from Tech 2.0 about the emerging trends to look for as a consumer in 2010.
CES 2010: Trends of the New Year
CES 2010 at Las Vegas has ended and amongst the staggering array of consumer technology covering all bases, a few trends have been set. The event itself featured manufacturers of all kinds of technology focusing on innovation and keeping it green, but there were a few trends that made it rather obvious to us, the consumer, that we would be seeing plenty of them during the course of 2010.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas takes an eco-friendly approach and increases green initiatives
Posted By: Brad Roderick
I am attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. This year, the trade show is working to increase its green initiatives. I wanted to provide some information from their Web site on the necessary steps they are taking to be the greenest trade show in the world.
The World’s Coolest Trade Show is Working to Be the Greenest
With the help of our partners, including GES, Aramark, the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) and The Venetian, CES attendees now have more opportunities than ever to recycle while conducting a year’s worth of business in one prime, environmentally friendly location.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
CNET: China introduces law to boost renewable energy
Posted By: Jared Cook
Here is an article I wanted to share from CNET about China’s renewable energy news.
China introduces law to boost renewable energy
A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal-dependent China.
Monday, December 28, 2009
UN urges all countries to sign climate accord in Copenhagen
Posted By: Jared Cook
Here is an interesting article from COP15.dk, the official Web site of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009. The article discusses the necessitiy of countries signing this bill to collectively combat climate change.
UN urges all countries to sign climate accord
The UN secretary-general on Monday urged all countries to formally sign on to the Copenhagen Accord to start tackling climate change and step up work toward a legally binding treaty in 2010.
Ban Ki-moon also urged richer nations to contribute to a multi-billion dollar fund to help poorer countries cope with global warming which will become operational in January.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
KU to Show off Green Side
By: Jared Cook
Here is an article from the Lawrence Journal World I wanted to share about the green initiatives the University of Kansas is taking this weekend.
KU to show off green side
Basketball players from both Kansas University and the University of Michigan will be warming up in T-shirts made from 100 percent recycled material — with a special Green Game logo on the back — before Saturday’s 11 a.m. nonconference game in Allen Fieldhouse.
The Green Game is a collaboration between KU, the city of Lawrence and ESPN, designed to feature KU and Lawrence’s sustainability efforts.