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Wave of the future for alternative energy?

Courtesy: Pelamis Get out your atlas, see if you can find Agucadoura, Portugal. Just three miles offshore there, these big metallic sea snakes are bobbing in the ever-restless waves of the North Atlantic. And they're generating electricity for over a thousand homes on...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Portugal, Pelamis Wave Power, Venture Capital, Telecom & Utilities, Outsourcing, Finance, Financing Startups, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-10

New meaning to the term 'catch a wave'

OK, so not all of you are convinced that water is a worthwhile data center cooling system. Yes, I read your comments. And I love inspiring debate. So, mission accomplished as far as I'm concerned. OK, so, indulge my water fetish a little more, will you? ...

Tags: Ocean, Power, Portugal, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-09-11

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Portugal's wave farm may be sunk

Slow deployment, bankrupt owner, perhaps a wave or two too far. The Portugal offshore wave farm to generate electricity may go the way of the Cray computer and the Edsel automobile. Or hydrogen powered cars. Back when I first blogged about the Pelamis tech...

Tags: Portugal, Pelamis Co., Litigation, Outsourcing, Personal Finance, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-20

America's lag-time in alternative energy

I just blogged about San Francisco applying for a permit to build an offshore wave farm to generate electricity. That's but the second step after deciding to try this tech. It's many more steps before anything is actually placed in the Pacific. And this is San Francisco, positioned next...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Portugal, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-01

Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum

Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water. The search giant filed for a patent in February. The...

Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Computing Unit, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-08

New wave energy to hit Washington

State, not Washington D.C. Nothing newunder the sun in THAT Washington. But there is a plan afoot for a Canadian fimr to build an offshore wave energy plant to generate electricity. You have to forgive the Seattle reporter who gushed about this being the world's first, etc....

Tags: Washington, Portugal, Outsourcing, Blogging, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-12-22

The wave and its powerful-looking future

The "sea serpent" use for generating electricity, the Pelamis. Courtesy Pelamis Corp. Among the European nations there seems to be a competition to become the greenest. Flat and windy, Denmark has turned to wind-generated electricity. Germany has pursued solar technology. So has...

Tags: Nuclear Energy, Coal, Iceland, Software Tech, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-12-05

Catching a wave, Euro-style

Most of our fellow American probably think Portugal is a small town near San Diego, but green techies like us should know better. Cause Portugal is where it's happening. We might think bright sun and probably solar, right? Well, besides cork oaks and Port, Portugal...

Tags: Sea, Portugal, Government, Outsourcing, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-17

New meaning to the term 'catch a wave'

New meaning to the term 'catch a wave'Have you ever been to the North Sea?It's NASTY up there, warships get hammered every year up there. THe Scots whom are the real architects behind the Pelamis and have been testing it for a while in the North Sea.Yes this is viable...

Tags: New Meaning

Discussion threads 2007-09-11