Al Gore, John Chambers to discuss climate change
Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers is joining the virtual stage with Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore on Wednesday morning to talk about climate change and technology innovation.
Al Gore
Chambers and Gore will use Cisco's telepresence system to communicate with a live audience at the VoiceCon trade show in in Orlando, Fla. They will discuss how unified communications technology, like the telepresence platform, can play a role in reducing carbon emissions, which are impacting climate change.
John Chambers
They'll also discuss other ideas for how businesses can reduce greenhouse gas emissions through innovative technologies and how the technology industry can create a sustainable model for addressing climate change.
The event will be Webcast live starting at 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT. And anyone interested in tuning in can register at the Cisco Web site to sign up in advance.
My colleague Martin LaMonica, who covers green technology, will be listening to the Webcast. So look for a blog post from him later Wednesday.
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How do you figure solar panels are a mistake?
Ethanol is a disaster, it's helping to ruin our economy. Current hydrogen technology is a waste of effort and money. We need to embrace clean, safe nuclear technology if we're ever going to make electric cars work. We need to drill in the 0.001% of the ANWR and offshore NOW to help reduce our foreign oil dependence in the short term. We're going to use the oil anyway, why not use more of our own and less of the radical islam fundamentalists'? Wind power is good, but its aggregate potential is very limited. Solar panels are still an expensive waste of time and space. How green is an inefficient solar panel's production footprint? Geothermal (natures nuclear power) is interesting, but we're probably better off splitting the atoms ourselves from a cost vs. benefit standpoint. Coal would be great if we could economically eliminate the gaseous byproducts. We have a tremendous amount of coal in the US, we should use it if we can. Why are there any oil-fired power plants in this country, is that insanity or what?
We need to get off this ethanol kick ASAP, before it bankrupts us. Green is good as long as it is INTELLIGENT. Algore's global warming religion is one of the reasons our economy is hurting, he needs to STFU and go back his supersized dinner.
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Humans are responsible only for ************ the rest of us with
stupid propaganda. A new generation of people that think critically
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http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid5_gci1255212,00.html#
"According to the ESG report, a fully populated 384-port 48000 Director from Brocade would consume 2.62 watts per port or 734 kW hours per month, versus a 348-port Cisco MDS 9513, which consumes 6.4 watts per port or 1770 kW hours per month. The carbon footprint, or the amount of greenhouse gases produced, measured in metric tonnes per year, for Brocade's Director was 3.26 metric tonnes. Cisco's MDS 9513 reportedly came out at 9.04 metric tonnes, when both chassis were fully populated, according to the report. To put this in perspective the average car weighs approximately two tonnes.
Cisco did not return a request for comment on this story."