Tech Coalition Backs Electricity Conservation

A coalition led by Google and Intel and including Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Hitachi, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, Sun and Yahoo, is backing a plan to make computers and servers more energy efficient. The plan aims to cut the amount of electricity computers use by one-half by making them more energy efficient. Currently, most computers lose about one-half of the power it uses and servers lose about one-third.

It is expected that making them more efficient will raise prices slightly, but save consumers more on their electricity bill.

H-P Unveils New Packaging

Hewlett-Packard announced that it will begin to package their print cartridges in smaller and lighter forms. They said that the expected greenhouse gas emission savings from this initiative will be about 37 million pounds this year, the equivalent of taking about 3000 cars off of the roads this year. The new packaging will reduce materials by about 15 million pounds. Since the packaging will be less, it will allow more packages to fit on delivery trucks. This is expected to reduce the number of miles driven by the delivery trucks by 1.5 million miles.