Dell partners with The Air Car
Dell, Environment, Laptop Power submitted by reg
03/26/07
The Air Car runs on Compressed Air. It is the only car with NEGATIVE EMISSIONS RATINGS! Air is Cleaner coming out of it than going into it!
The Air compressor filters air as it goes into the car, and the car filters the air as it goes out. The Air car acts as a transportable atmospheric scrubber system.
Click the Air Car to see other models. Dimensions: 3.84m, 1.72m, 1.75m Weight: 750 kg Maximum speed: 110 kmh Mileage: 200 - 300 km Max load: 500 Kg Recharge time: 4 hours (Mains connector) Recharge time: 3 minutes (Air station) No Combustion, no pollution, no heavy electric battery, no heavy metals, no toxic leaks. It use just compressed AIR. Travel for only a few cents, instead of more than $2.00 a gallon of gas. Burning gasoline is expressed as exploding expanding gases. Why use liquids at all, when AIR is so much cleaner, easy to store, and actually helps the environment? HOW IT WORKS: The Air Car.
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Going green by planting a tree
Dell, Environment, Desktops and Laptops submitted by carr0075
02/20/07
Fluffy and empty of true impact. I look forward to the time when vast Dell forests cover the barren plains of .... hmmm, I mean the vast carbon spewing life-sucking cities of....where are the tree's being planted again? Ok, the idea of planting trees is not totally without merit but, gee whiz, is this the best idea that Dell could conceive?
A better idea would be more energy efficient machines and more transparency on how you recycle e-waste (where do you send all of that old lead etc..Asia?). Tell your customers where they can send old machines for recycling rather than have toxic material end up in landfills. An even better idea would be to offer your customers the option of paying a small fee, similar to the tree idea, that would allow them to send their computer back to Dell for recycling. Heck Dell wouldn't even have to do much more than act as a go between for an established recycling company.
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Dell Champion the National Computer Recycling Act
Dell, Environment submitted by jorge
06/01/07
Dell should support and champion the National Computer Recycling and clean up by not only ponying up money for the bill (PACs) but create a Recycling Center to recycle old computers (at a charge) and assorted parts/peripherals. If its too costly then sell the Center later to interested Green supporters and stick them with the dirty work. But leave Dell in the name of the Center. Looks good and is good. Also, offer media destruction to the paranoid customers at a charge as well.
Its a win/win cause. We get a reputable company to recycle our toxic computer (electronics) parts and erase any possible data left on drives/memory-sticks/tape/cd's/dvd's (at a cost so Dell doesn't lose money). Then Dell can resell any recyclable materials or re-use those materials in future computers and associated parts/peripherals.
Details here:Legal Mumbo Jumbo.
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Environment
Environment submitted by melongirl512
06/05/07 **PARTIALLY IMPLEMENTED**
To become the "greenest" IT company,
1. Reduce vehicle miles traveled by employees by encouraging carpooling; having commuter shuttle buses (or working with Capital Metro) from places throughout Austin, Pflugerville, etc. Have bike-friendly facilities, such as bike trails, showers, bike racks.
2. Look at energy and water conservation in your buildings. You can do an audit through TCEQ and get advice to reduce water and energy use and use materials that improve indoor air quality for workers.
3. Look at the whole product "cradle to cradle" life cycle: there should be no waste. The products should be designed so that all by-products can be used for something.
4. Take back old computers and recycle them so that no toxic chemicals are thrown in landfills and the materials can be reused.
Good luck!
Dell looks for ways to improve how they conserve product energy consumption, reduce or eliminate materials for disposal, prolong product life span and provide effective and convenient equipment recovery solutions. For products, we do follow the product-life-cycle to identify and address environmental impacts associated with design, manufacture, use, and end-of-life activities.
Details on our energy and water conservation programs as well as our recycling efforts, on site and for consumers, can be found here.
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Reducing energy consumption of Dell data center
Dell, Environment submitted by biblrytr
06/13/07
Traditional UPS and battery systems are not very efficient, with overhead losses averaging 10%. In addition, most data centers use Power Distribution units to transform 480 VAC power from the UPS into 208 or 240 VAC for the servers, which introduces another 2.5% in overhead losses. Thirdly, batteries require lead and sulfuric acid -- two substances with known toxic effect on humans and the environment. There are technologies available today to remediate all these issues:
* Using integrated flywheel/UPS/diesel genset products to eliminate batteries in the data center and improve end-to-end efficiency by a significant amount, and...
* Eliminate PDUs altogether by taking UPS output at 400 VAC (instead of 480V) and connecting phase-to-neutral (like the Europeans do) to derive 230 VAC, which is the optimal input voltage for server energy efficiency.
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Dell Stop Selling Printers and Move forward on Becoming Greener!
Environment, Printers and Ink submitted by jorge
06/12/07
Dell Stop the madness and stop selling printers! Printers are a major end cause of major pollution. Printers use toxic inks and toner, in addition to wasting paper and reducing the tree count which is better used for other more appropriate uses. Having other Green movement to plant trees etc. is being negated by continuing to sell printers. Information processed on the computer was meant to stay on computers not converted to paper.
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Old computer recycle program
Environment, Desktops and Laptops submitted by carr0075
02/20/07
Maybe DELL does this already, but DELL should offer consumers a computer recycling program for their old computers. If DELL wants to really work towards being "green" reducing the amount of computer related toxic material being dumped into local landfills would be a good beginning.
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Switch to New Lithium-Sulfur batteries: Carries a longer charge, double the lifetime, Environmentally friendly, no toxic heavy metals, cheaper to produce, lighter weight
Environment, Laptop Power submitted by reg
06/10/07
Recharge Lithium-Sulfur over and over again. Sulfur is cheaper than heavy metals, and friendly to the environment. No toxic metals, and also better performing in colder temperatures. Lithium-Sulfur batteries also weigh less than Lithium Ion batteries.
More Power, Lower Costs, Safer for the environment, Easier to carry:
Lithium-Sulfur Batteries.
We Need A New Source of Power! MORE POWER!
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Forecast sales vs E- toxic discharge
Environment submitted by petzymathuram
06/06/07
The toxic discharges from the computer sites include:
1: Lead in cathode ray tube and solder
2: Arsenic in older cathode ray tubes
3: Selenium in circuit boards as power supply rectifier
4: Polybrominated flame retardants in plastic casings, cables and circuit boards
5: Antimony trioxide as flame retardant
6: Cadmium in circuit boards and semiconductors
7: Chromium in steel as corrosion protection
8: Cobalt in steel for structure and magnetivity
9: Mercury in switches and housing.
A precautious report well in advance needs to be prepared anticipating sales and the amount of e-waste in the near future. This is to prevent Dell suffering a setback in it’s contribution to a greener technology in the later stages. Competitors may find this aspect as a blocking tool when the sale of Dell shoots up to hinder an upward growth. As the saying goes “Prevention is better than cure”……
A detailed analysis of how much systems are built and moved into the market along with it’s e- toxic discharge to the environment. If so how does Dell go ahead to help the metros combat e- waste management?
Guidelines given by Dell to all metros / cities etc. to manage it’s e-waste
Guidelines given by Dell to it’s customers as how to dispose their e-waste, as where they have to dispose, the address, the locality of the dump yard / dispose yard/ contact point / contact person to dispose e-waste etc.
For Dell to own a greater part in the Green Technology revolution... For Dell to lead…
For Dell, With love, Petzy
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Biodegradable Computers
Accessories (Keyboards, etc.), Environment, Desktops and Laptops submitted by reg
03/30/07
Well, It would be great if a computer was made of mostly biodegradable components.
Imagine when your done with your old computer, you could remove the power supply and hard drive and CD drive, and then drop the rest of it into a tub of boiling hot water.
The Circuit Boards would melt away, a harmless starch based polymer that bacteria can eat.
The chips, resistors, and sockets would sink to the bottom of the tub.
The actual wiring would no longer use Copper or Gold, but the conductive plastic polymer recently developed - works as good as metal, but it's plastic!
So you get left with some starchy water, wet chips and electronics, and some stringy plastic strings.
The Advantages:
Forget the land fill - the plastics can get recycled.
The starchy polymer water well - it should be treatable like 'grey water'.
The electronics - mostly silicon, plastics, and metals - they readily can be melted down for the gold, silver, etc content - or processed in the most logical manner.
The metal / plastic casing should be made of FEWER large parts, easily separated into
recycled plastic, and recycled steel / aluminum.
Don't stop at the PC - make smaller PCs, biodegradable mice, keyboards, printer, etc.
A whole line of computer equipment that when soaked in water over 200 degrees,
they melt away. (Hot water so your PC doesn't melt itself on a humid day!)
DELL - ENGINEER THE FIRST BIODEGRADABLE PC ON THE EARTH !
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Make Laptops with metal cases not with plastic cases
Accessories (Keyboards, etc.), Laptops submitted by drahnreb
03/02/07
Please build Laptops with metal cases like aluminium, magnesia or stainless steel.
The harddisk should be vibartion free implemented in the case. This have two advantages:
- shock resistence
- silence
Than make the keyboard waterproof.
When the total weight of the Laptop (with powerswitch) is less than 2 kg, than it would be a robust mobile notebook.
Make, that this wouldn't be no longer a dream.
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Add some colors!
Accessories (Keyboards, etc.), Desktops and Laptops submitted by bajtalan.hunor
02/24/07 **PARTIALLY IMPLEMENTED**
In my opinion nowadays colors like gray or black are getting too old. Why Dell does not follow other companies like Sony or Apple or the tiny Flybook. People like colors because it expresses their personality, not everybody is a businessman or businesswoman, we like colors. For example white is getting more and more popular but there are other trendy colors out there.
So PLEASE ADD SOME COLOR TO YOUR NOTEBOOK AND DESKTOP LINES and make them look like jewelry and not like a piece of plastic, do some cool design.
We like to show a laptop to which people say WOW. So the "WOW STARTS NOW"!
The new Inspiron and XPS notebooks do come in colors now, but stay tuned for more ways to customize the look of your PC.
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REUSEABLE SHIPPING CONTAINERS
Environment submitted by scotty750
06/08/07
I'm an onsite tech. I've been griping for years about the large boxes for shipping parts for warranty calls that don't have handholds. And I just thought of a way to solve my gripe, make dell green and save money.
You can purchase hardened plastic laptop shipping cases that are lockable and pretty much infinitely reusable. Why not a similar solution for warranty parts.
Currently dell is using cardboard boxes. Lifespan of a box, 2 ships, out and back. if your lucky, maybe a second warranty call but not likely. cost of a box say 40 cents. number of boxes used a year??? well if we figure 30,000 systems built per day and a failure rate of say 10% (industry average is beleived to be about 15%) thats 3000 units a day that break.
Yes theres an upfront cost of purchasing the shipping cases, but they can get used an unlimited number of times. since they don't have to be constantly remade like cardboard, its a lower carbon footprint, and can lower to total cost over time from reuse. and it adds zero waste to landfill.
summary:
zero landfill
infinite reusability
lower carbon foottprint per unit over time
lower manufacturing costs over time
easy to implement
free advertising of dells commitment to green. make em a nice white with a nice big dell logo and a nice big recycle logo on it. every customer that gets a warranty repair would see the commitment to green
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Cheap plastic covers
Accessories (Keyboards, etc.), Laptops submitted by dlipton
04/28/07
What if you could buy cheap plastic covers for your laptop that teenagers could easily paint, mark-up, cover in stickers, and generally customize without worrying about ruining their computer? If the covers were inexpensive and easy to swap then people would be more likely to customize their computer.
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Would you buy a car with a body made of plastic ? => Offer laptops with metal exterior cases - use steel, magnesium, titan, aluminium and carbon composites
Laptops submitted by mahei
02/19/07
Laptops are expensive.
Laptops are indispensable - they carry my photos, my music, my emails, my software development. Of course one has to make backups - but still it's a mayor inconvience that laptop cases are made of *cheap* plastic.
Would you buy a car with a body made of plastic ?
So make the exterior case rugged - use steel, magnesium, titan, aluminium and carbon composites(thanks barius). It doesn't need to be made up to MIL standards, but just use some smart engineer's brains!
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Notebook Shells Are Plastic - Offer Metal Casings Too
Laptops submitted by googideas
02/17/07
Notebooks get carried everywhere. Shouldn't Dell offer an aluminum or otherwise metal casing/construction as an option?
If I am going to drop two grand on a laptop, which I just did, I sure as heck want it as rugged as possible. I don't care about weight or additional cost. I want it to last.
Plastic is brittle. A dent in the metal is better than a crack in the plastic. It's also easier to recycle.
What do you think?
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Automatically include carbon offset credits in computer price
Environment submitted by madmax_br5
04/22/07
Analyze how much carbon is produced for the lifecycle of a Dell product (manufacturing, distribution, usage, and disposal/recycling). Then, find out how much it costs to offset all of this carbon by purchasing carbon or clean energy credits (means that this money allows other people to afford green power by subsidising the cost compared to conventional power, and it works great because you can't get green power everywhere, so this helps where it can).
Then just add this cost onto the base price of the machine and be done. No asking if someone wants to pay extra, just add it on. That way, every computer Dell ships will be nearly carbon neutral (then you can advertise this as well).
Also, use less plastic, and try using bioplastics made from scrap wastes of corn and other organic materials. These bioplastics do not involve petroleum, biodegrade (slowly, not within the lifetime of the product).
And how about a completely modular laptop chassis? That way, you can buy ONE laptop and keep swapping the internal and external components as needed, without having to buy an entirely new laptop, which is a waste of resources and money (not to mention, the high initial cost restricts sales). Old modules, once upgraded to newer ones, would be traded in and used as parts for low cost, educational computers. You would get a credit/discount for returning old parts to encourage less waste.
And for goodness sakes, environmentalism is stylish! Hire an industrial designer with some taste, stop looking like you're cranking out computers stolen from a cylon vessel. No stickers, no two-tone faux chrome and black plastic, no boxy edges, jutting ports, utilitarian vent holes, creaky keyboards, lathes, doors, ugly power adapters. Keep it simple, clean, and green.
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Biodegradable Packing material
Environment submitted by ewagnerjr2000
04/19/07 **UNDER REVIEW**
When I received my 32" lcd screen it had an extremely large amount of Styrofoam. Dell is working to be environmentally friendly, maybe they should consider a better packing material at least one that will biodegrade.
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Make Computers from Biodegradable and Edible Plastic
Environment submitted by badblood
04/12/07
Tired of eating petroleum by-products? Try dining on edible plastic instead. Plantic, a plant-based plastic, tastes like state bread yet is wonderful with some fava beans, a nice salad, and a beer...
The Plantic® material has the following key properties:
* The raw material source is renewable and sustainable
* Ingredients are not genetically modified
* It is certified Home Compostable to European Standards
* It is certified Biodegradable to European Standards
* It is certified for disposal in waste water to European Standards
* It is suitable for food contact applications
* It is inherently anti-static and oil resistant
* It is sealable, printable and laser etchable
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