I got kicked out of Cal Courts this morning because the power went out and they didn’t think they’d be able to restore it for 20 minutes or more. It made me think again about what it would take to tie all the machines at a gym in to an electricity generating and storage system. All that kinetic energy going to waste. Of course, at 8:30 on a Sunday morning, there weren’t enough people...
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Ironic Recycling
We’ve been doing recycling for several years. I’m pretty happy that itt’s reduced our garbage output by more than half. I go down to the Eureka recycling center every other week. They’ve recently made it simpler and faster by reducing the amount of sorting you have to do considerably. What’s funny, or sad, depending on my mood, is the number of huge SUVs that roll in to the transfer station to recycle struggling to...
The Internet Helps Save Energy
In spite of the what seems like huge sucking sounds coming from massive server farms and data centers soaking up electricity it appears, according to a new study, that the “net” affect of the growth of the Internet is a savings in energy usage. “Indeed, all America’s servers – the computers that direct traffic on the Internet – and the systems that cool them use about 1.2 percent of the nation’s electricity, according to...
