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Russian government battle rages around wrenching more energy from coal or energy effici... - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 29 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 29 Mar 10
     
    "Contrary to conventional wisdom among Russian energy leadership, Russia can meet the power needs not only of its own country but those of Europe without driving up its carbon footprint, a new study from the US-based German Marshall Fund asserts. Charles Digges, 23/03-2010 The report comes on the heels of an announcement by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last week that Russia would remain committed to developing clean and green energy technologies, and called for the country's long languishing Climate Doctrine to be implemented. "
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Peak Oil for Programmers, Part II « ram them down - 0 views

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shared by Paula Hay on 12 May 09 - Cached
  • Google is the world’s largest electric utility customer It used to be the case that people who were in charge of serious computing performance measured FLOPS. Now they measure FLOPS per watt. How fast one computer may be is irrelevant. Ken Brill, director of the Uptime Institute, describes how energy management has become the number one challenge in data center management.
  • programmers have ignored the energy dynamics of our work (and our white collar clients’) for too long, and that we won’t be able to get away with it for much longer.
  • I think it’s safe to say that in the US and many other countries, we have far exceeded the 20% spending on information that nature came up with
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  • As long as this is the paradigm for creating wealth, as it has been for several decades now, the only major question we need to ask about an investment is: what is the marginal value?
  • In the coming era of expensive energy, it will make sense only to fund those software projects that keep the overall IT investment at a reasonably small portion of revenues while producing a maximal effect on the ability to deliver hard goods and services.
  • Here’s a surprise: the human brain consumes 20% or more of the calories of a typical person.  There is evidence that for brain-intensive work, it goes even higher. When you realize that just three or four calories can produce a giant flame (skip to 2:40) we are talking serious energy behind every thought you think.  In fact, dealing with the heat load from the brain was a major bottleneck in human evolution. Let me state this a different way.  Nature has decided that for every human that the planet supports, at least twenty percent of the food energy we can scrape together is going to go to information processing — planning, remembering, analyzing, communicating — rather than actually doing stuff.  And this is before we spend a dime on technology, not to mention consultants and other brain workers whose bodies aren’t used that much.
  • But information is still special, and it has special limits that anyone who thinks and/or programs for a living should pay attention to in the context of the coming energy shortages.
  • o the extent that we can call something information, and take advantage of this wonderful copy-the-pattern-for-”free” property, it has value only if is ABOUT something that, ultimately, isn’t information.
  • It seems this all leads to a constraint: the total value of information in an economy is always less than the value of the non-information, i.e. the traditional goods and services.  This is because the value of information is a derivative of the “real stuff” it is about.
  • Now what I’m saying is if we don’t start helping our clients find huge efficiencies, if we don’t tackle the world’s toughest problems with everything good software can offer, in short, if we don’t stop working on boring crap, than many of us will be out of a job.
  • Paula Hay on 12 May 09
     
    The energy dynamics of computing. Includes fascinating insight into the energy requirements of biological computing -- e.g., brain power. Fantastic, a must-read.
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NYT's Matt Wald blows the "Alternative and Renewable Energy" story, quotes only industr... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 30 Mar 09
     
    I have known the New York Times energy reporter, Matt Wald, for 15 years, and generally think he is pretty good. But he has published perhaps the most flawed, inaccurate, and indefensible article in his career. Wald's piece could also be a poster child for award-winning journalist Eric Pooley's searing critique of the media's coverage of climate economics (see How the press bungles its coverage of climate economics - "The media's decision to play the stenographer role helped opponents of climate action stifle progress").
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Obama announces new fuel standards - Mike Allen and Eamon Javers - POLITICO.com - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 23 May 09 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 23 May 09
     
    President Barack Obama announced plans on Tuesday for a national fuel-economy and greenhouse-gas standard that would significantly increase mileage requirements for cars and trucks by 2016. Obama called it "an historic agreement to help America break its dependence on oil, reduce harmful pollution and begin the transition to a clean energy economy." The new requirements mark the first time there has been a nationwide standard for emissions of greenhouse gases. They require an average mileage standard of 39 miles per gallon for cars and 30 mpg for trucks by 2016 - a jump from the current average for all vehicles of 25 miles per gallon.
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