tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347191972024-03-13T07:07:47.842-07:00Everything and the kitchen linkBlogs, environment, politics, technology and the kitchen link, often all in one post!Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-15922632220029086762013-08-15T13:35:00.003-07:002013-08-15T13:38:16.276-07:00Hot, bad cooking at the net's edgesCompanies like Google work hard to reduce data center energy use (they should be made to work even harder via a carbon tax!!!) but what about energy use at the edges? <a href="http://etbe.coker.com.au/2013/08/15/google-chromium-cpu/">Russell Coker</a>:
<blockquote>Web standards are complex and it’s difficult to do everything the way that one might desire. Making a web browser that doesn’t take 100% CPU time when the user is away from their desk may be a difficult technical challenge. Designing a web site that doesn’t trigger such unwanted behavior in common web browsers might also be a challenge.
But when one company produces both a web browser and some web sites that get a lot of traffic it’s rather disappointing that they don’t get this right.</blockquote>
Action:
<blockquote>The consequences of such wasted CPU use are reduced CPU time for other programs which might be doing something useful, extra electricity use, and more noise from CPU cooling fans (which is particularly annoying for me in this case).
Any suggesstions for reducing the CPU use of web browsers, particularly when idle?</blockquote>Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-49176940883469853372009-12-20T20:18:00.000-08:002009-12-20T20:27:21.439-08:00At least asking the right questions<a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/12/20/1433257/The-Environmental-Impact-of-PHP-Compared-To-C-On-Facebook">The Environmental Impact of PHP Compared To C On Facebook</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://golang.org/">Go</a> smells tasty for the kitchen!Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-75810407196780245282009-05-25T17:08:00.000-07:002009-05-25T17:14:08.918-07:00Just tax carbon vs. the great ethanol scam<a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/25/2121248">/. is running the following</a>:<blockquote>"Over at BusinessWeek, Ed Wallace is creating quite a stir, reporting that not only is ethanol proving to be a dud as a fuel substitute, but there is <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/may2009/bw20090514_058678.htm">increasing evidence that it is destroying engines</a> in large numbers. Before <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/chi-fri-burns-ethanol-columnapr24,0,7548647.column">lobbyists</a> convince the government to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/automobiles/10ETHANOL.html?ref=global-home">increase the allowable amount of ethanol in fuel to 15%</a>, Wallace suggests it's time to look at ethanol's effect on smog, fuel efficiency, global warming emissions, and food prices. Wallace concedes there will be some winners if the government moves the ethanol mandate to 15% — auto mechanics, for whom he says <a href="http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/lexus/lexus-safety-recall.aspx">it will be the dawn of a new golden age</a>."</blockquote><br />Yes, and <a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1244803&cid=28089173">a comment by gravesb cooks right to the solution</a>:<br /><blockquote><br /><b>just tax carbon</b><br /><br />Stop the subsidies, tax carbon to account for externalities, and then let the market decide. The negative effects of biofuels have been on display ever since the Dutch dropped palm oil. Instead of the government pushing this obviously failed product, they should make sure that consumers bear the entire cost of their decisions and let companies develop a way to reduce fossil fuel consumption. And less biofuels means the price of my beer goes down, dammit! Won't someone think of my beer?</blockquote>Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-91103725598382653782009-02-25T19:05:00.000-08:002009-02-25T19:14:01.807-08:00Wild highways to connect old and new kitchens of diversity?Old NYT article in the kitchen: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/science/earth/30forest.html">New Jungles Prompt a Debate on Rain Forests</a>.<br /><br />KL believes every cell of virgin rainforest is sacred and doesn't want new growth rainforest to be an excuse for not fervently protecting that virginity.<br /><br />This is cooking up curiously though. Maybe to make the taste fuller, add wild "highways" between virgin and new rainforest so that some species that don't have a way to reach the new habitat can do so.Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-6262456735308088312009-01-20T10:38:00.000-08:002009-01-20T10:39:39.149-08:00Prediction KitchenThe Kitchen Linker is predicting stuff <a href="http://hubdub.com/s/LIORISLMM1">on HubDub</a>.Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-19166162710477561362008-12-02T07:17:00.000-08:002008-12-02T07:20:46.352-08:00Surf Green<a href="http://www.sectheory.com/browser-power-consumption.htm">Firefox is slightly greener than IE</a>, but blocking advertisements makes the biggest difference.Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-47828543045578889572008-11-17T09:40:00.000-08:002008-11-17T09:55:51.736-08:00Now is the time for introducing and raising the gas tax level!Gas prices have <a href="http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx?time=24">fallen by nearly 50%</a> since their June/July peak <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/us/17fiscal.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink">states facing deficits</a>.<br /><br />Now is the time to introduce much higher gas taxes -- at the national, state, and local level.<br /><br />In the long run, it will save the environment. In the short run, it will avoid stupid taxes on production, just when unemployment is racheting up. <a href="http://kitchenlink.blogspot.com/2006/09/tax-waste-not-work.html">Do as Al Gore says</a>.Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-78054554358722561042008-08-14T15:33:00.000-07:002008-08-14T15:35:18.181-07:00Download and be green<a href="http://techliberation.com/2008/08/12/download-and-be-green/">Explained.</a>Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-30975677221544537412008-06-26T21:20:00.000-07:002008-06-26T21:23:51.101-07:00Save (money and environment) driving better<a href="http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-save-money-on-gas-without.html">Be a better lead chef in your car's kitchen.</a><br /><br />Ingredient found at <a href="http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2008/06/calculating_you.html">Econbrowser</a>.Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-19264847327055697992008-04-28T00:04:00.000-07:002008-04-28T00:08:20.489-07:00Toyota: Higher Gas Taxes, or Not?<a href="http://blog.toyota.com/2008/04/higher-gas-taxe.html">Toyota asks</a>:<blockquote>What do you think about the idea of increased taxes on fuel? Should we pay more in gas tax? If so, why, and if not, why not? And if so, what should the per-gallon tax be, and what should the resulting revenue be used for?</blockquote><br />Kitchen Linker says YES, much higher, general revenues.<br /><br /><a href="http://kitchenlink.blogspot.com/search/label/pigou">Many notes on the kitchen board explaining WHY.</a><br /><br />KUDOS to Toyota for asking. Now make it happen!Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-80747178916496750552008-03-08T14:33:00.000-08:002008-03-08T14:37:14.162-08:00Web page performance = green web page<a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/03/steve-souders-asks-how-green-i.html">How green is your web page?</a><br /><br /><code><a href="http://kitchenlink.blogspot.com/search/label/greensoftware">Performance == green</a></code>Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-12976380997041241922008-02-19T21:37:00.000-08:002008-02-19T21:39:40.278-08:00Lessig in the Kitchen<a href="http://lessig.org/blog/2008/02/two_announcements.html">Getting</a> <a href="http://lessig08.org">serious</a>. <a href="http://kitchenlink.blogspot.com/2008/02/change-congress-in-kitchen.html">Change Congress?</a>Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-30640580098290275592008-02-16T10:47:00.000-08:002008-02-16T10:50:20.350-08:00Change Congress in the Kitchen?<a href="http://draftlessig.org/">Draft Lessig</a>.<br /><p><br /><a href="http://draftlessig.org"><img src="http://draftlessig.org/outreach/draft-lessig-284x166.jpg" alt="draft lessig" style="border: 0;" /></a>Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-2497862619484209712007-12-24T13:56:00.000-08:002007-12-24T14:00:46.541-08:00San Francisco Mayor follows Al Gore: Tax waste not work<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/12/06/state/n064741S21.DTL">San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom is in the kitchen</a>:<br /><blockquote>Mayor Gavin Newsom plans to ask voters next year to approve a "carbon tax" on businesses that he says would provide a financial incentive for conserving energy and motivating workers to use public transportation.<br /><br />The ballot measure would increase the city's 5 percent commercial utilities tax by an as-yet-undetermined amount to encourage energy-saving steps by hotels, offices and other nonresidential buildings, Newsom said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.<br /><br />To keep the higher rates from becoming an economic drag on the city, the initiative would carry a corresponding decrease in the 1.5 percent payroll tax on for-profit businesses in San Francisco, according to the mayor.</blockquote><br />Nice, just <a href="http://kitchenlink.blogspot.com/2006/09/tax-waste-not-work.html">like Al Gore</a>.Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-12582911027143724272007-11-25T09:07:00.000-08:002007-11-25T09:13:40.965-08:00World's largest oil consumer?<a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/26194.html">The U.S. military</a>, via an article <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/11/25/the-biggest-gas-guzzler-of-them-all/">criticizing Al Gore</a> for doing nothing to oppose the same.<br /><br />If Gore would step up to slicing and dicing (kitchen analogy is a must here) the U.S. military in addition to <a href="http://kitchenlink.blogspot.com/2006/09/tax-waste-not-work.html">advocating a carbon tax</a>, he'd have a great one-two punch against global warming!Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-29961250358763850292007-11-23T22:08:00.000-08:002007-11-23T22:10:08.430-08:00Xmas lights<a href="http://www.philforhumanity.com/Christmas_Lights.html"> Christmas lights. Bah-hum-bug!</a>Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-29160061110779077592007-11-15T18:35:00.000-08:002007-11-15T18:39:23.476-08:00Green Your Home Data KitchenGreen computing is for <a href="http://kitchenlink.blogspot.com/2007/11/green-your-data-kitchen.html">data centers</a> and with an <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9045738">extreme engery makeover, your home office</a>. Fortunately most of the benefit comes from replacing a CRT with a LCD monitor, which everyone is doing anyway. To take the next steps, read the article and act in your home data kitchen.Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-90313952241452172612007-11-11T17:42:00.000-08:002007-11-11T17:46:00.076-08:00Green Your Data KitchenOr, <a href="http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007532.html">green your data center</a>, article on Worldchanging.<br /><br />Lots more great information (to be followed!) at <a href="http://www.thegreengrid.org/home">The Green Grid</a>.Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-6083156308564186602007-10-21T22:23:00.000-07:002007-10-21T22:28:00.602-07:00Drought West<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/magazine/21water-t.html?em&ex=1193112000&en=409568d61448aa92&ei=5087%0A">Another</a> reason to <a href="http://kitchenlink.blogspot.com/2007/09/irrigate-east.html">move agriculture to the East</a> and <a href="http://kitchenlink.blogspot.com/2006/11/sugarcorn-mafia.html">kill agriculture subsidies</a>. And to fight global warming.Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-76196674561631171542007-10-08T03:30:00.000-07:002007-10-08T03:42:17.923-07:00Fural to be green VI: Frugal tax policyIf the shortest path in the kitchen to being green is being frugal, what is the obvious green tax policy? Consumption tax! <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/business/07view.html?ex=1349496000&en=1879fefa29ca32b4&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink">Why Not Shift the Burden to Big Spenders?</a> doesn't cover the environmental implications but is good background.<br /><br />However, Kitchen Linker has concerns with the way this proposed tax is cooked. It requires reporting of income <span style="font-weight: bold;">and</span> savings: new frontiers in zero privacy.<br /><br />Far better to concentrate consumption taxation on carbon, which has no privacy concerns and very directly attacks the number one global environmental concern (global warming, of course).Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-74522686175722388312007-10-08T03:14:00.000-07:002007-10-08T03:21:22.530-07:00Algae a viable biofuel?<a href="http://kitchenlink.blogspot.com/2006/11/sugarcorn-mafia.html">Ethanol from corn is nothing but a shakedown</a>, and other biofuels are marginal, but <a href="http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5195599.html">what about algae</a>? -- <blockquote>Yield of vegetable oil in gallons per acre per year: <p> • <strong>Algae: </strong> 100,000 </p> <p> • <strong>Palm: </strong> 700 </p> <p> • <strong>Rapeseed: </strong> 130 </p> <p> • <strong>Sunflower: </strong> 110 </p> <p> • <strong>Soybeans: </strong> 50 </p> <p> • <strong>Corn: </strong> 29 </p> <p> Source: GlobalGreen Solutions; Valcent Products </p></blockquote><p>Is there anything to this? And why in dry West Texas?</p><p></p><blockquote>The two companies behind it, El Paso's Valcent Products and Canadian alternative energy firm Global Green Solutions, have developed a system they claim will allow for cheap mass production of algae in just about any corner of the world.</blockquote><p></p><p>Why not in the <a href="http://kitchenlink.blogspot.com/2007/09/irrigate-east.html">wet East</a>?<br /></p>Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-8099754648311209682007-09-30T19:29:00.000-07:002007-09-30T19:35:12.623-07:00Realtor cooking<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/28/highly-entertaining-realtors-suing-other-realtors/">Highly Entertaining: Realtors Suing Other Realtors.</a><br /><br />Yep.<br /><br />Kitchen Linker searches kitchen for a grinding instrument to use on the guild, then a sharp knife to <a href="http://kitchenlink.blogspot.com/2007/08/save-environment-repeal-mortgage.html">remove the anti-environment mortgage interest tax deduction</a>.Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-46966490765181093122007-09-30T19:26:00.000-07:002007-09-30T19:29:09.730-07:00Green Energy Czar<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/is-black-new-green.html">Google has one</a>, so cool.Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-66635968651426797562007-09-29T20:02:00.000-07:002007-09-29T20:03:45.559-07:00Less Watts<a href="http://www.lesswatts.org">Less Watts.org</a>. Go green software, go open source, go green source!Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719197.post-65334405113832604152007-09-29T19:55:00.000-07:002007-09-29T19:59:35.028-07:00Irrigate the EastMove agriculture from the massively irrigated and dried out West and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/22/opinion/22mcnider.html?ex=1348200000&en=e4d2d80005fa3253&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink">Let the East Bloom Again</a>. Kitchen Linker says this could be the most important environmental idea in the USA (the carbon tax is a global idea), <a href="http://www.theamericanscene.com/2007/09/22/eastern-promise">via The American Scene</a>.Kitchen Linkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179385032092813483noreply@blogger.com0