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  Energy conservation is important too…

  11.10.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Energy conservation is important too…

  I am delighted to see this joint program between Sun and PG&E: Sun Announces First-of-its-Kind Energy Rebate With PG&E Space, power, cooling and budget are the growing constraints for every datacenter. In August of this year, Sun announced a first-of-its-kind energy rebate for its Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers with California utility PG&E. As […]

• Energy

  Hot dry rock or enhanced geothermal system?

  11.09.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Hot dry rock or enhanced geothermal system?

  Yesterday I had the pleasure to meet with a geologist who possesses vast knowledge of the geothermal landscape (literally.) One item that came up in our conversation was about the blog entry I wrote concerning geothermal power, and in particular “hot dry rock.” The geologist indicated that HDR has been around for awhile with the […]

• Energy

  Electricity from hot water

  11.03.06 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  That’s right, geothermal resources (hot fluid and/or gas) can and is being used to generate electricity the world over. Geothermal literally means “heat from the earth.” The first successful geothermal electricity generation installation was in Larderello, Italy in 1904. The largest is the Geysers in Northern California where 21 plants generate around 3% of California’s […]

• Energy

  Penny powered LED

  11.02.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Penny powered LED

  If you like to hack things (other than software, but sometimes including software,) a source for interesting projects is Make Magazine. I’ve now gotten a couple of them and have found them highly entertaining and sometimes informative. This weekend I was looking for a fun activity to do with my 3.5 year old daughter (who […]

• Energy

  Biomass for the masses

  11.01.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  A few months ago I posted an entry about biodiesel fuel which is a great example of biomass at work. A plant undergoing a process to transform it into a fuel for use (biorefining) in our current infrastructure, in this case, transportation. That’s a great specific case, but biomass is, when you get right down […]

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