IBM, others develop GreenCert greenhouse gas meter
It's already developed a "gas gauge" for its servers, and a greener means of recycling silicon, but IBM now looks to be taking its increasing environmental awareness to an even larger scale, with it, Enterprise Information Management, and Evergreen Energy developing a greenhouse gas meter that promises to measure the carbon output of various industries and devices, according to IDG. Dubbed GreenCert, the software employs a whole mess of IBM tools including various WebSphere applications, along with an "engine" designed by the folks at C-Lock in order to take a snapshot of a particular company's carbon footprint. It then does it's thing again after the company's taken measures to reduce its carbon emissions, giving them proof of their reductions which they can use to get carbon emission credits that can be traded on the carbon market. The software won't be available in its final form until sometime in the first half of 2008, however, but those looking to get a jump on things can apparently get a beta version from C-Lock right now.
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Flashpoint @ Dec 13th 2007 1:41PM
Even if you could develop a Greenhouse Gas meter - similar to the typical household digital thermometer - and it GRADUALLY INCREASED DAY BY DAY... The Republicans would still do their best to keep the theory of Global Warming repositioned as a debate so they could continue allowing OIL COMPANIES to pollute the world and keep themselves from having to pass restrictions against auto makers to increase MPG and develop suitable alternative energy.
The Green movement right now is just a scam to redistribute political power and its filled with absurdism. Corporations will make as much money off of it as they can but no matter what, without a worldwide policy, third world countries in development will pollute in ways America never could. China and India are going to put so much toxic gas in the atmosphere in the next 50 years that moving to the moon and Mars is going to be a neccessity.
Kamokazi @ Dec 13th 2007 1:47PM
Hey, I would be careful of what you post. Aren't you worried about 'them' coming for you now that you've discovered their secret?
brokenkeyboard @ Dec 13th 2007 3:43PM
and they WANT to end the war too, right?
they just aren't for some reason?
Flashpoint @ Dec 13th 2007 1:52PM
I'm not afraid of a bunch of greedy, fat, Republican congressmen. Right now the Democrats are majority anyway and they WANT Green measures to be taken.
one1082 @ Dec 13th 2007 3:22PM
As an IBM employee, I couldn't help but let out a chuckle when I read this part: "the software employs a whole mess of IBM tools including various WebSphere applications"
IBM sells "a whole mess" of stuff, haha. Go Big Blue!