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Making more Power-Efficient Computer Processors

OLED Screens are Coming

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I've written before about the idea of green music. The idea is to cut your footprint by investing in high quality equipment (not gadgets) with a long shelf life, low energy or Energy star compliant, ROHS compliant, obsolescence resistance, streaming capabilities or digital downloads vs CD's.

I was not unhappy when the Sharper Image went bankrupt earlier this year; the store seemed entirely devoted to selling superfluous junk that was all connected to wall outlets. Its demise might have saved us a coal fired power plant or two, except Amazon has stepped in to take its place. Exhibit A:

704.9 million -- That's how many cathode ray tube (CRT) televisions have been sold just in the USA since 1980, according to the EPA.

42.4% -- How many of those TVs are estimated to still be in use.

Now that fuel is so expensive, a kid can't cruise the streets in his car with the sound system turned up so high that the road vibrates. Instead, a group of Trinidadian teenagers in Queens are customizing their BMX bikes. Nicholas Randall and Joe Stevens made a movie about it it called Made In Queens. via PSFK...