Green Tech » Jagdish http://injoos.com/blog/greentech Saving the environment through Technology Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:28:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Get Yourself Off that Grid! http://injoos.com/blog/greentech/2010/02/28/get-yourself-off-that-grid/ http://injoos.com/blog/greentech/2010/02/28/get-yourself-off-that-grid/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:00:20 +0000 Jagdish http://injoos.com/blog/greentech/?p=136 While I write this blog post the serviceman came and took away the faulty Inverter from my home in Bangalore, the silicon alley of India. In this hitech city there are constant power cuts and in this month it has gone up to 4 Hours a day. The UPS with battery sells like hot cakes [...]]]>

While I write this blog post the serviceman came and took away the faulty Inverter from my home in Bangalore, the silicon alley of India. In this hitech city there are constant power cuts and in this month it has gone up to 4 Hours a day. The UPS with battery sells like hot cakes so that affluent home owners can get their fans running when the local utility BESCOM stops the power supply. Large IT companies use highly polluting and energy inefficient generator sets, guzzling huge amounts of fuel. I wish I could get off the public power grid and generate my own power and live happily ever after. That is still a pipe dream as the current technologies using clean energy sources like Solar and Bio are very expensive and also very inefficient.

When I saw the press release of BloomEnergy, a new Silicon Valley startup whose CEO Sridhar, an emigrant from India indicated that with his new Solid Fuel cell technology his Bloom boxes will help us get off that grid. The first customer trying his boxes is Google who has been using it for the last 18 months to power one of its data centers. So what is this new technology? How is it different?
Solid fuel cells have been used for a long time now in various space technologies by organizations like NASA, the difference being that this time around the technology does not use expensive metals or corrosive liquids but inexpensive sand. Yes, sand gets transformed into a ceramic sheet which gets coated and becomes the core of the solid fuel cell. The bloom box which is of the size of a refrigerator could power up to four houses in Bangalore.
One of the analogies I liked is bloom boxes could do what Laptops did to large computers and mobile phone did to landline phones. Literally make you self sufficient.
Watch this video as Sridhar demonstrates the use of his technology and the companies which are trying it out.


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The technology is yet to be commercialized and I am hoping that Sridhar and team will be able to keep the costs down to the level people in Asian countries will be able to afford it.
]]> http://injoos.com/blog/greentech/2010/02/28/get-yourself-off-that-grid/feed/ Get on that Bus! - Bengaluru Bus Day http://injoos.com/blog/greentech/2010/02/03/get-on-that-bus-bengaluru-bus-day/ http://injoos.com/blog/greentech/2010/02/03/get-on-that-bus-bengaluru-bus-day/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:59:29 +0000 Jagdish http://injoos.com/blog/greentech/?p=97 For people familiar with the Bangaluru traffic will understand when I say that it would be great when all the cars, two wheelers are off the road. Maybe that pipe dream is closer to reality if we all Bangaloreans contribute and enjoy the Bangalore Municipal Bus service for a day on February 4th which is [...]]]>

For people familiar with the Bangaluru traffic will understand when I say that it would be great when all the cars, two wheelers are off the road. Maybe that pipe dream is closer to reality if we all Bangaloreans contribute and enjoy the Bangalore Municipal Bus service for a day on February 4th which is being celebrated as Bangaluru Bus Day. BTW, Bangalore has the best public bus service in the country and it is the only profitable public transport enterprise in the nation. It boasts the only and the biggest fleet of air-conditioned Volvo buses. I definitely plan to be on the bus to the office on Thursday (even though my house is pretty close to office as a symbolic gesture). Share your experiences on the day you left that vehicle behind and help reduce the pollution levels in a city which we still like to call the “Garden city”.

Some interesting factoids and opinions on Bengaluru Bus day.

http://aravind-krishnaswamy.blogspot.com/2010/01/feb-4th-bangalore-bus-day.html

Map of Premium Bus service in Bangalore

Respond to the BMTC (Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation) survey

See what people are tweeting on Bangalore Bus Day

]]> http://injoos.com/blog/greentech/2010/02/03/get-on-that-bus-bengaluru-bus-day/feed/ Know the carbon emissions of your Business travel http://injoos.com/blog/greentech/2009/12/21/know-the-carbon-emissions-of-your-business-travel/ http://injoos.com/blog/greentech/2009/12/21/know-the-carbon-emissions-of-your-business-travel/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:12:38 +0000 Jagdish http://injoos.com/blog/greentech/?p=92 To start appreciating any issue first it is good to quantify the same in some manner. I found this useful tool from cabonfound.org which helps you put a number to the amount of pollution you and your team members could be causing due to business travel a.k.a your Carbon Footprint.

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To start appreciating any issue first it is good to quantify the same in some manner. I found this useful tool from cabonfound.org which helps you put a number to the amount of pollution you and your team members could be causing due to business travel a.k.a your Carbon Footprint.

Obviously as anyone would know business travel is a definite must to meet customers, prospects et. al. but then having this back of your mind can let us optimize those travels and maybe find alternate ways of achieving the same. For example you could use web conferencing as an alternative to traveling to the customer site. There any many web conferencing tools which are available today and are very easy to setup and use.

DimDim (Currently DimDim provides free web conferencing upto 20 Users)

Webex

GotoMeeting

You can work with you co-workers remotely and with the use of cloud applications. Checkout our Blog on New Way to Work.

]]> http://injoos.com/blog/greentech/2009/12/21/know-the-carbon-emissions-of-your-business-travel/feed/ Welcome to the Injoos Green Tech Blog http://injoos.com/blog/greentech/2009/12/21/welcome-to-the-injoos-green-tech-blog/ http://injoos.com/blog/greentech/2009/12/21/welcome-to-the-injoos-green-tech-blog/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:37:52 +0000 Jagdish http://injoos.com/blog/greentech/?p=90 Dear Professional,

Welcome to the Blog!. This blog does not intent to replace many of the informative blogs on how Green technologies work and the likes. We have a view that in todays work mobile professionals like you can do your bit to help achieve the larger goals of greening our planet. Things like “Do I [...]]]>

Dear Professional,

Welcome to the Blog!. This blog does not intent to replace many of the informative blogs on how Green technologies work and the likes. We have a view that in todays work mobile professionals like you can do your bit to help achieve the larger goals of greening our planet. Things like “Do I need to travel for project meetings?”, “What are the advantages of remote working”, “Ho do I conserve power” etc.

With todays cloud based applications and cheap mobile devices you can conduct your business form Antime-Anywhere with ease. Couple this with the social media you get a sense of belonging without the need to be physically together with your team members.

Through this blog we would want to highlight the impact you can create on the environment by tele-working, remote working, cloud computing and greener technologies.

Pelease collaborate with us to make this blog enriching for your fellow professionals.

Thanks,

Team Injoos

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