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When we think of green buildings, we tend to think of new ones--the kind of high-tech, solar-paneled masterpieces that make the covers of architecture magazines. But the U.S. has more than 100 million existing homes, and it would be incredibly wasteful (not to mention totally unrealistic) to tear them all down and replace them with greener versions. An enormous amount of energy and resources went into the construction of those dwellings. And it would take an average of 65 years for the reduced carbon emissions from a new energy-efficient home to make up for the resources...
...join the growing chorus of global "tweets" appearing on computers and cell phones worldwide every day. "We've always been focused on making sure that the lowest common denominator, the weakest technology, still has a voice," said Dorsey, who was in Baghdad this week with a delegation of high-tech executives at the invitation of the State Department. Cellphone-carrying Iraqis, Dorsey said, could utilize Twitter applications on their current mobiles for a range of things, even without broadband Internet connections, which are still in short supply in Iraq. "In our case that's using Twitter through SMS [text-messaging...
...help from Washington. Half the $200 million price tag of the first phase of the project will come from federal stimulus spending, and there's more to come. Along with the $3.3 billion in grant money set aside by the Department of Energy for smart-grid tech, another $615 million is set to be spent on projects for energy storage and monitoring. To Washington, building the smart grid is about more than energy - it's about creating jobs, an investment that will stimulate the economy today and pay off later. "This [industry] is going to be the biggest investment...
...appear in shops anytime soon, lest friends and foes alike get hold of the technological wizardry. "Whether or not we'll ever get to see any of this [technology], that's a different matter," says Julia Wing, director of Spymaster, a London-based supplier of clever surveillance and communications tech to British government departments. (See pictures of Ian Fleming...