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  1,500 MW Wind Power Purchase

  12.23.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on 1,500 MW Wind Power Purchase

  This week, Southern California Edison signed an agreement with Alta Windpower Development, LLC. (subsidiary of Australia’s Allco Finance Group) to purchase the output of an aggregation of projects to produce some 1,500MW of electricity from turbines located in Tehacapi. That’s renewable at utility scale and it’s very exciting to see. I strongly suspect that a […]

• Business, Innovation

  Pets & Tunes

  12.20.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Pets & Tunes

  Last night was a busy one…but not how you’d expect with it being the silly season and all. It started off with a meeting of the community that is launching a startup around pet needs last night in Palo Alto (at Mandarin Gourmet restaurant – it’s very good, I recommend it.) A colleague has some […]

• Business, Commentary, Media

  Unwatchable

  12.19.06 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  Update: I’ve done an analysis of a playoff game, it’s certainly worse than expected. Take a look at the findings… I recognize that football, particularly the National Football League (NFL,) is a for profit organization. But, there comes a time when the commercialization surpasses the product. Congratulations NFL, you’ve made it to that promised land. […]

• Business, Energy

  More Geysers development

  12.15.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on More Geysers development

  Back in October, Western GeoPower (TSX: WGP) announced their intent to rebuild a power plant on the site of old “PG&E Unit 15” commencing operations in 2009. This is interesting in that there was a plant on that site producing 65MW from 1979-89. By resizing the plant to 25MW (net,) Western GeoPower believes that they’ll […]

• Business, Energy, Technology & Science

  $428 per server per year

  12.06.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on $428 per server per year

  Garden variety data center photo Yesterday I had a conversation with a colleague who is now working in a large, and I mean large, server environment. There are many challenges he faces, but chief among them is power consumption and cost. They are now having to place their data centers according to power supply capabilities […]

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