electricity in photos
Photos: Take a tour through BT's 'secret WWII tunnels'
Photo Under London's streets, the tunnels worked as air raid shelters, with electricity and running water for their occupants. Welcome to the Kingsway Tunnel, 100 feet below the streets of Holborn. The tunnels are shown above... [20 Oct 2008]
Photos: Sun's manufacturing and test centre
Photo The system uses ambient air to cool the data centre running inside the van, rather than more electricity-hungry air conditioning. Sun Microsystems recently opened the doors to its Linlithgow manufacturing and testing... [12 Sep 2008]
Photos: Scots HQ is green office of the future
Photo As one NG Bailey executive said: "We get a reduced cooling load size and some electricity for free. Building services company NG Bailey has opened a Scottish HQ, consolidating a number of other sites and showcasing a... [10 Sep 2008]
Photos: The building of a data centre
Photo If power fails then each pair of data halls will be fed by electricity from a dedicated generators, as seen here. As the beating heart of business, data centres store and process the information that keeps UK Plc afloat. [11 Jun 2008]
Photos: Feeling chipper about green IT
Photo The 39,000-server centre will draw power from a combined heat and power plant that uses its natural fuel to generate electricity, hot water and steam. Burning wood might be a chip off the old block but it is something of... [20 May 2008]
Photos: Power-generating leg brace goes for a walk
Photo Researchers from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia have developed a device worn much like a knee brace that generates electricity from the natural motion of walking. Wearing a device on each leg, an individual... [11 Feb 2008]
Photos of the Month - November 2007
Photo From a solar-powered bikini to wireless electricity, there is certainly an interesting range of options. Kicking off our photo stories this month was the iPhone launch on 9 November. Natasha Lomas went down to Apple's... [29 Nov 2007]
Photos: BT blows £250m on wind farms
Photo BT is planning to develop wind farms to generate up to 25 per cent of its existing UK electricity needs by 2016. The wind farms could generate a total of 250MW of electricity, which would prevent the... [19 Oct 2007]
Photos: How old PCs can bridge the digital divide
Photo The charity will also work with schools to set a curriculum, train teachers in IT and ensure there is a reliable supply of electricity to power the PCs. Tony Roberts (left), CEO and founder of Computer Aid International,... [12 Feb 2007]
Photos: Inside The Bunker
Photo Electricity and telecoms connections come into The Bunker from all directions. Welcome to The Bunker, an ex-Ministry of Defence nuclear bunker now used for data backup and disaster recovery by the financial industry. [25 Oct 2005]
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