荒廃し破滅の危機にある惑星ヘリオスを救え----IBM、ゲームで再生可能エネルギーをアピール: ソフトエネルギー

荒廃し破滅の危機にある惑星ヘリオスを救え----IBM、ゲームで再生可能エネルギーをアピール

　IBMが約１年半の時間をかけて開発したフリーゲーム、”POWERUP”。化石燃料の消費により温暖化の危機にある惑星ヘリオスを風力や太陽光発電などの再生可能エネルギーを使って救うというゲームだそうです。

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" If any one out there is listening, Planet Helios is being destroyed and we need your help!

Hundreds of years ago the nations of our planet realized that the side effects from burning fossil fuels for energy were damaging the atmosphere and changing the climate. They joined together to develop and build technologies to create electricity from available renewable energy resources like wind, sun and water power. Meanwhile the planet's citizens?our ancestors? pulled together and pledged to use less energy. This ushered in a Golden Age of energy balance and ecological harmony.
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Play PowerUp today and prove it's NOT too late! Join the other brave volunteers who are heeding the distress call! You'll come from far and wide to work together putting your skills to the test in some of the most extreme environments imaginable and the stakes are high ? life and death!

Product at a glance
Name: POWERUP
Players: 1+ (up to 6 per mission and 50 per planet)
Resolution: 1024x768
Developed by: IBM in partnership with TryScience/New York Hall of Science
Processor: Pentium IV 2 Ghz or better
Graphics Card: ATI or Nvidia with Directx 9 .1 support
Video RAM: 64 Mb
System RAM: 1Gb
Hard Drive Storage: 300
Broadband Internet connection
Mouse recommended "