RSS Feed     Twitter     Facebook

Posts Tagged ‘cooling’

Jan 14: Singapore property stocks in focus on new cooling measures

Singapore property developers such as CapitaLand (CATL.SI) and City Developments (CTDM.SI) are likely to be in focus on Friday, after the government introduced new measures to cool home prices that have continued to rise. Singapore’s benchmark Straits Times Index <.FTSTI> was up 0.34% on Thursday to 3,255.87 points. Here are some other stocks and factors to watch:

Read more…

SGI Ice Cube Air Modular Data Center Offers Air Cooling

SGI is rolling out its Ice Cube Air modular data center, a solution designed to give enterprises a cost-efficient and eco-friendly way to exapnd the capacity of their facilities. – SGI is unveiling a modular data center offering that lets enterprises build capacity as needed and cool the IT environment using outside air or water from a hose rather than air conditioning units or chilled water.
SGI is showing off the Ice Cube Air on the floor of the Gartner Data Center Conferen…


ISS Astronauts Unable to Fix Cooling Pump

NASA plans another spacewalk this week after a repair mission to fix a broken cooling pump on the International Space Station was unsuccessful. – NASA announced plans for another spacewalk after weekend attempts to
repair a broken ammonia pump module aboard the International Space
Station failed. The space agency reported the next spacewalk
would take place no earlier than Aug. 11. Expedition 24 Flight
Engineers Doug Wheelock and Tracy Ca…


International Space Station Stable Despite Cooling Issues

Despite failed attempts to repair the loss of a cooling loop aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA reports conditions on the craft are stable, with a Thursday repair via spacewalk planned. – NASA reported mission operations personnel and International Space Station (ISS) program management met Sunday morning to discuss the status of the loss of cooling loop, which Saturday night on the ISS when a circuit breaker tripped Saturday night, resulting in the failure of the Pump Module for loo…


Singapore’s property cooling measure may get tougher, says UBS

Singapore’s government might take more drastic measures to cool property market if rate of residential property price increases fails to slow, says UBS, according to Dow Jones Newswires.

Read more…

Singapore property market not dented by government cooling, says DMG

Singapore residential property market still seeing buoyant demand, despite government efforts to cool market, says DMG, according to Dow Jones Newswires.

Says buyer response to new property launches over weekend still solid with healthy take-up rates of 60–80%; achieved pricings of 20–30% price premiums vs completed projects nearby.

Read more…

Global Warming a Cooling Concern for Americans, Report Finds

Fewer Americans are finding global warming an important issue, a report from the Pew Research Center finds.

A report from The Pew Research Center discovered a sharp
decline in the percentage of Americans who believe in evidence supporting
global warming. The poll, conducted September 30 to October 4 among 1,500
adults reached on cell phones and landlines, found that 57 percent think the…


Global Warming a Cooling Concern for Americans, Report Finds

Fewer Americans are finding global warming an important issue, a report from the Pew Research Center finds.

A report from Pew Research Center discovered a sharp
decline in the percentage of Americans who believe in evidence supporting
global warming. The poll, conducted Sept. 30 to Oct. 4 among 1,500
adults reached on cell phones and landlines, found that 57 percent think there
is soli…


Double glazing companies can help you cut your heating and cooling bills in half! Posted By : Martin Troughton

When searching for a home to buy, who can resist the allure of rooms that are filled with large windows? Isn’t the charm of large bay windows in the master bedroom so much more appealing than a bedroom with so few windows that it feels like a cave? What potential home buyer could honestly claim that they prefer a home with fewer windows and less natural light shining in?

HP Green Data Center Vision Offers Eco Friendly Power, Cooling Technology

With the amount of power being consumed by data centers rapidly growing, and mounting pressure from federal regulators to cut that consumption, businesses are looking for ways to make their data centers more environmentally friendly. Like many competitors, Hewlett-Packard offers services to help businesses make their new data centers green, or retrofit existing facilities with eco-friendly features. Such features can include everything from new, energy-efficient systems and greater use of virtualization to green materials used on the outside of buildings and innovating power and cooling methods inside. The following are four data centers some new and some already existing that HP helped make more green. Two are customer sites, and two others are data centers HP inherited when it bought services firm EDS in 2008.
– …