The Cleantech Era

摘要

Last year's green highlight-the Copenhagen Summit-was a flop. But 2010 marks the start of a new and greener decade. The jury is still out on global warming. But green tech is driven by economics and, in India, by acute power short-age.and the high cost of backup power. Here are three key trends for the twenty-tens.rnThe Green Cloud: Cloud computing serves the public at large, which probably doesn't even know the term when it uses Gmail, online storage, or other web services. And it's evolving into a simple, pay-per-use way to get services on tap, just like electricity, for businesses. But the cloud is also the greenest way to go. Organizations don't need to set up server banks running complex apps-they pay for what they use from the cloud. The provider services many users from one set of equipment. The green spinoff: this cuts energy use per user sharply. The cloud is a more efficient, and greener, way to use technology. For a small business, cloud-based services cut equipment and energy costs.