Google pushes for green buildings, provides an example

Google has taken on his public blog this morning to talk about the company's focus on creating a greener, more sustainable jobs for their employees. The company participates in several green initiatives including energy audits and the use of green building materials and competitive programmes contrast with each other to become a greener Office team.

In addition, Google said that he now added its first LEED certified building in the Googleplex in mountain view, California.

LEED, which stands for "leadership in energy and environmental design", is an internationally recognized certification program for rating of green buildings. Google says this is not his first LEED building, but this is the first in the Googleplex.

New achievement was awarded LEED platinum for Interior renovation, which is a healthy building materials and methods, says Google. The company currently has 4.5 million square feet of building space across the world, which he hoped would soon earn LEED certification.

Other green building practices used by Google include:

Heating to prevent material containing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and other known toxins that may cause damage to human health by using materials free of living building challenge red list materials and chemicals ConcernPushing EPA construction industry to adopt a more transparent practices when it comes to labelling of construction materials and require suppliers to meet transparency requirements through the Pharos ProjectInvests in the most effective, cooling and lighting systemsPerforms the regular energy conservation and water auditsImplements measures and develop the best practicesUses of renewable sources of energy, where feasible (as these solar panel)

Google launches an internal program of sustainable achievement of pit teams against each other to earn points based on their Office Green performance, measuring your green cleaning programmes, water use and waste management strategy.

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New USB Spec provides for up to 100 Watts of power, "Lightning" is the name of a cute

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I am sure that many of our readers come across situations where they would prefer USB for a little more energy for their device. Your phone or iPod, ever so slowly charging or external drive that works only on "food" USB ports — or should be inserted into the socket. Sockets, in this day and age! I ask you!

Fortunately, the SuperSpeed USB Group (or any shady illuminatus, it really defines the USB) Decides that the next generation USB 3.0 (PDF) will include support for shocking 100 Watts of power. This is enough to keep the 10 disks or LCD or even the entire laptop. And believe it or not, it uses the same cables and ports, which we have already received.

It's really quite a big jump from standard W 5 or 10 Advanced Watts, found in the normal USB ports. Even Thunder vaunted (and electric sounding) only supplies 10W. With 5 GB/s and 100 Watts of power USB specification, you can enter the second spring here. To keep the larger and more complex devices like printers, monitors and speakers can make it even more versatile than it already is. This is a real leg up on the peak of lightning and light structures, which, although they can handle data from ten external drives, most likely could not power more than two of them. Cables must be able to process about 1.5. It is not clear how the power load will change, but Division is reasonable to believe that they will increase the number of concurrent loads.

Currently, despite the fact that the new specification will use the existing cables, there are potential problems. Not all sources of supply and motherboards are prepared for this type of transfer of power and improperly managed, these high power can burn components, tax PSU and cause overheating. Carrying charge USB cables of low quality already melt and catch fire. But it is disingenuous of me to propose this as a weakness, when the authorities closely monitored USB controller and should be used only for power and currents, tested and known safe taking class USB devices. I'm more worried that several devices and computers will have power of overhead to support this, because they rather choose UPF, carefully taking into account the power draw requirements of the system.

Fears of obsolete equipment, the gap in the direction of the flame, I think it's quite interesting. This is a serious growth and may allow a different accessory ecosystems. Don't expect to charge ten times faster device just yet, but once the design is completed at the beginning of 2012 (it will look at the Intel Developer Forum in September as well), you might reasonably expect some very interesting USB-powered.

[via Tech report]

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Augmented reality provides a look at the joint Korea

Although the idea of a reunified Korea never dies, it is also one that seems pretty unlikely in the short term. And thanks to the work of the augmented reality artist Mark Skwarek tourists and citizens of South Korea provided a glimpse of what it was and ever can be.

Mark Layar-powered Korean unification project tries to heal the scars left by years of conflict on the Korean peninsula by removing the Korean demilitarized zone [DMZ] and return it to its natural state before Korea was divided into "Smartphone and tablet users can go to one of the two (currently) viewing locations and fire up the application for a look around. They will be seen in the image of the landscape that, thanks to its erasAR, erases signs of Division (think barriers, walls, weapons) between the two countries.

That it only works in several places on the border of North/South of regret, but it's really a new idea. I imagine (or at least hope) that it will get a lot of mileage out of an installed, not from any specific political currents, but since it illustrates a part of history, otherwise would not exist outside of textbooks. At least I hope that this inspires some intrepid youth write some decent alternative history fiction.

In case you are not due to fly out to South Korea soon, here is a video that should approximate the experience:

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