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Storing sun and wind power: Storing sun and wind powerRe: HistoryI'm against opening up the reserves in Alaska and the Gulf. What's great about petroleum reserves is that they never go away until we use them. Do you honestly believe we'll see an end to petroleum consumption in the next 100 years? We're going to...; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, MegaWatt, HIGH PRICE, energy generation, wind power, energy storage; Discussion threads 2007-12-05
More than artists wired at the Grammys: More than artists wired at the GrammysAmps are not powerIsn't this supposed to be a tech magazine? Why would a tech magazine allow an article to be published with such an egregious mistake as "15,000 amps of power"? What's going to be next, "The farmer poured 15,000 volts...; Tags: Performance management, Amps, Did-It, Grammy, megawatt; Discussion threads 2007-02-14
Solar start-up snags $35 million as CIGS ignites: Solar start-up snags $35 million as CIGS ignitesThis is excellent.Since a solar panel that is made with quality can last 30 years, it would be great if this product can last as long. If the alternate energy suppliers could lower the price and make it up in volume like Henry...; Tags: megawatt, CIGS, MegaWatt, solar panel; Discussion threads 2006-10-28

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Texas: more than just oil and politicians: Texas. Oil. Politicians. From LBJ to George W, Texas has brought us oil, war and big military budgets. Well, now there are some subversives sneaking yet another energy business onto the scene down Texas way. Wind! Course, much of the ooomph is coming from those dread...; Tags: Texas, Vestas, Banking, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-04-04
Southern California Edison: Let's go up on the roof: What do you do with 65 million square feet (that's nearly two square miles) of unused rooftops on California commercial buildings? If you're Southern California Edison SCE, you figure they're as good a place as any for a massive solar cell installation. Which is precisely what the utility announced today...; Tags: California, Southern California Edison, Sales Force Management, Sales, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-03-27

Future bright for solar energy: At a Churchill Club event in Menlo Park, Calif., CNET News.com editor-at-large Michael Kanellos talks to John Woolard, CEO of BrightSource Energy, about building 100- to 200-megawatt solar-energy plants to power 100,000 to 200,000 homes. Woolard also discusses how the company is targeting solar as a competitive energy alternative to...; Tags: Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Green; Videos 2008-01-30
Cisco delivers next-generation switch--Nexus 7000: Cisco is rolling out its Nexus 7000 family of data center-class switches that Jayshree Ullal, senior vice president of Data Center, Switching and Services at Cisco, said was the most significant announcement by the company in the last decade. The Nexus 7000 is a modular mega-switch that...; Tags: Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Nexus 7000, NX-OS, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-01-27
We are seeing the death of nuclear power's precious myth: We are seeing the death of nuclear power's precious mythHey there chicken little....>>Oh, and those dependable nuclear plants can’t use abundant salt water.the sky is falling... no really... the sky is falling....Wiki "De-desalinization Plants". Plenty of abundant water for Nuclear facilities that way... And nuc energy can supply...; Tags: Jane Fonda Mind-set, precious myth, nuclear energy, Nuclear Plant, nuclear plant; Discussion threads 2008-01-23
Surf's up for PG&E and Finavera: Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) has extended its portfolio of renewable energy commitments into wave energy. As far as I'm aware, this represents the first commercial commitment to a wave project located in the United States. So far, most of the discernable wave energy projects have been in places like...; Tags: Coast, Renewable Energy, PG&E Corp., Animation, Finavera, Pacific Gas & Electric, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2007-12-23
NIMBY, but I still want the electricity: NIMBY, but I still want the electricityPower for what? no punPower for what? More data transmission? The U.S. has been systematically transferring its manufacturing capability overseas for decades and that is now increasing exponentially. In many industries a U.S. company wanting to produce a product has no choice but to...; Tags: manufacturing, NIMBY, Young People, Clothing Manufacturing; Discussion threads 2007-12-05
Google's latest ambition: Create renewable power that's cheaper than coal: If you're a renewable energy expert, Google has a proposition for you. The company's latest part-philanthropic/part-capitalistic initiative from its Google.org arm aims for nothing less than displacing the coal industry's dominance as the primary supplier of electricity. (Roughly 40 percent of the world's supply.) ...; Tags: Google Inc., Renewable Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2007-11-27
Renewable amp-up: HP invests in solar, wind energy resources: This entry's in the way of pointing out some news this morning from Hewlett-Packard. The tech giant disclosed today that it has inked deals with two renewable energy suppliers to considerably amp up its use of solar and wind power. Given Google's big green news today,...; Tags: Renewable Energy, Hewlett-Packard Co., Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2007-11-27
Come 2010, will there be enough renewable energy to switch on your lights?: Here's some irony for you. There's a new report out of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL that suggests demand for renewable energy will outpace supply by the year 2010. (The report carries the scintillating title of "A Preliminary Examination of the Supply and Demand Balance for Renewable Energy.") ...; Tags: Renewable Energy, MWh, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2007-10-30
Google's 650,000-core warehouse-size computer: My quad-core tower suddenly feels wimpy What does it take to power the world's most popular search engine? Lots of CPU cycles. Which is just what Google's new data centers provide. No one is talking, thanks to Google's tight NDA policy, but with satellite imagery and some deft...; Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Rack, Pricing Strategy, Computer, Data Centers, Storage, Processors, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2007-10-23
Money, money, money says Morgan. Learn to spell trillion.: Reminds me of an ancient folk song that went, "green, green, it's green they say, on the far side of the hill." Now Morgan Stanley puts the top of the hill about 22 years away, but they also predict a lot of green along the way. S'pose MS...; Tags: Reuters Ltd., Morgan Stanley, SunPower Corp., FuelTech, Web Site Development, Manufacturing, Internet, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-10-18
'Green IT': are we missing the bigger picture?: ZDNet colleague Larry Dignan, reporting from Gartner IT Symposium, says too much is being made of "Green IT," and IT managers he has spoken with even say it may be a bogus issue generated by vendors and consultants. Before we attack IT for depleting our energy supplies,...; Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Green IT, E-business, Data Centers, Web Technology, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2007-10-11
"Sunny day, chasing those clouds away." (Or Ausra teams up with utilities for solar thermal development): Another amazingly sunny, potentially thunder-y afternoon out here in Jersey. Which is probably why I noticed this particular set of energy news out of the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York this weekâ€¦ Three companies -- FPL Group (the parent company of Florida Power & Light,...; Tags: Team, Turbine, PG&E Corp., Plant, FPL, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2007-09-27
Building a data center circa 2007: Jon Vander Hill has built two data centers since 2000 and is on his third for Berbee, the data center hosting unit of CDW. Since then the landscape has changed dramatically. Power costs matter more than ever, as does cooling design. CDW Berbee is currently building a...; Tags: Data Center, Idea, kW, Utility, Jon Vander Hill, CDW Berbee, Vander Hill, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-09-24
365 Main details SF outage problems: 365 Main details SF outage problemsOh the cure is simple...[B]”At 1:47 p.m. on Tuesday, July 24, 365 Main’s San Francisco data center was impacted by a power surge caused when transformer breakers at a local PG&E power station unexpectedly opened. PG&E has still not determined what caused the breakers to...; Tags: Manufacturing, e-GEN, outage, solar array, PG&E Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-08-01
365 Main details SF outage problems: 365 Main on Wednesday detailed what went wrong during the San Francisco power outage last week and detailed what it's doing to make sure its facilities stay running in the future.The power outage on July 24 knocked various sites--including CNET, Craiglist and others--offline and raised questions about business continuity planning.Here's...; Tags: IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Disaster Recovery, Datacenter, Business Continuity; Blog posts 2007-08-01