EDITOR'S NOTE

Morning everyone,

It seems that as we move towards clean, renewable energy sources globally that technologists are really starting to think about how to capture some of the energy that previously dissipated straight into the atmosphere and reuse it - particularly in IT environments.

In the data centre, free cooling is gathering pace, and some centres such as one in Israel are rumoured to use the heat from the centre to warm a swimming pool, located on the roof.

Intel has been talking up power consumption for a little while now, so this morning's piece on using wireless sensors to scavenge energy from the ambient environment and get more accurate data centre power output readings shouldn't come as too much of a surprise.

It could be five years away yet, but at least we as an industry are starting to think about it.

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Iain Thomson | December 08, 2008

Intel's chief technology officer Justin Rattner has been detailing the latest research from Intel labs into power saving and generation.

By Shaun Nichols , Iain Thomson | December 08, 2008

Sometimes a new technology not only makes things more complex, but also frustratingly difficult and time-consuming. This week, we look at a few of those pet peeves of the technology world.

By Dean Pullen | December 08, 2008

After a significant period of waiting, a final 'stable' release of Jboss 5 has hit Jboss.org for download.

By Iain Thomson | December 08, 2008

CERN has issued its final report on the failure of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and has said that the device cannot be restarted before June 2009.

By Sylvie Barak | December 08, 2008

There may be some debate about whether netbooks are an important growth opportunity for chipmakers, or if they're taking a significant bite out of laptop sales, but the fact AMD doesn't have a netbook processor in the pipeline could be problematic for the firm.

By Shaun Nichols | December 08, 2008

Microsoft is preparing to release the December edition of its monthly security release.

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