For Hewlett Packard Fellow Chandrakat Patel, there’s a “symbiotic relationship between IT and manure.”
HP Dreams of Internet Powered by Phone Chips (And Cow Chips) | Wired.com - 0 views
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Patel is an original thinker. He’s part of a group at HP Labs that has made energy an obsession. Four months ago, Patel buttonholed former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan at the Aspen Ideas Festival to sell him on the idea that the joule should be the world’s global currency.
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Data centers produce a lot of heat, but to energy connoisseurs it’s not really high quality heat. It can’t boil water or power a turbine. But one thing it can do is warm up poop. And that’s how you produce methane gas. And that’s what powers Patel’s data center. See? A symbiotic relationship.
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of relevance to this discussion: Koomey's Law, a Moore's Law equivalent for computing's energetic efficiency http://www.economist.com/node/21531350 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/13/2148202/whither-moores-law-introducing-koomeys-law
changement_climatique__octobre_2010.pdf - 2 views
Skeptical Science now an iPhone app - 2 views
Top 10 Surprising Results of Global Warming | LiveScience - 5 views
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#4 is pretty interesting
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There are (even in Science): http://science-mag.aaas.org/cgi/reprint/314/5803/1253.pdf There is also a group at UCAR (lead by S. Solomon, one of the Gods in atmospheric research) who are analyzing this effect: http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2006/thermosphere.shtml
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for the drag effect, this is well known in fluid mechanics, we use the Knudsen number, which explains this phenomenon ... for a perfect gaz though!
Video - The Great Global Warming Swindle - 2 views
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joke posting??
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This is why i always post crazy stuff .... its disruptive. ..... although sometimes its a joke ;)
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why not this one then? http://www.venganza.org/
Researchers can now convert CO2 from the air directly into methanol fuel - 2 views
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For the first time, researchers have shown that they can capture CO2 from the air, and convert it directly into methanol, which can then be used as an alternative fuel, as well as for hydrogen storage, in fuel cells, or as a building block for plastic.
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Solar power to suck out co2 during the day and make it fuel finally solves global warming?
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