{"id":274456,"date":"2010-02-04T01:10:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T06:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/columbia-university-gets-28-million-to-develop-energy-saving-computer-chips\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T01:10:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T06:10:57","slug":"columbia-university-gets-2-8-million-to-develop-energy-saving-computer-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/274456","title":{"rendered":"Columbia University gets $2.8 million to develop energy-saving computer chips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/02\/04\/nanomagnetic-materials_KpfSD_69.jpg\" alt=\"nanomagnetic materials\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Energy-saving computer chips to be made using magnetic materials. <\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energy.gov\/8491.htm\">Department of Energy<\/a>, about 50 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, which is about 3 percent of the total U.S. consumption, is consumed by computer servers in the U.S. To reduce this staggering amount, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/\">Columbia University<\/a> has received a federal grant of $2.8m to develop computer chips that are more energy efficient.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Columbia University will work with IBM and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornell.edu\/\">Cornell University<\/a> on the SEAS project. The project involves building a power converter that can fit on a silicon chip, instead of being positioned on the main circuit board, as energy is normally lost when electricity travels from the converter to the chip.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/02\/03\/columbia-university-looks-to-nanomagnetic-materials-for-energy-efficient-computer-chips\/\">CleanTechnica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Energy-saving computer chips to be made using magnetic materials. According to the Department of Energy, about 50 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, which is about 3 percent of the total U.S. consumption, is consumed by computer servers in the U.S. To reduce this staggering amount, Columbia University has received a federal grant of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}