Comment on this Report: Server Farms
When you fire up your computer in the morning and go online, chances are you’re not thinking of the environmental impact of the Internet. You might be surprised. The server facilities that keep us all connected gobble up nearly two percent of the electricity used in the U.S. Generating all that power carries a big price tag – in the form of greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists and engineers in Silicon Valley are working to reduce the impact of a global network that we have all come to depend upon.
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Hello.
As I listened to this story it struck me how simple it would be for Sun microsystems as well as any other provider of server farms to cut or eliminate their on the grid energy use. They ALL should follow the lead of Federal Express and go completely Solar. SUN microsystems!!!SOLAR!!DUH!!! FedEx’x main hub with it’s myriad of conveyer belts and the massive computers than run them are completely powered by a rooftop solar array. The technology exists right now to cover a ten square mile area of the Mojave desert with solar collecters AND POWER UP THE WHOLE COUNTRY. The U.S.A. does not need to burn even one more ounce of coal or methane or heating oil. These so called industry leaders need to step up to the plate and make solar happen. ZERO EMISSIONS!!!! Clean unlimited power forever, okay, 5 billion years or so. If we went to an all electric car country and plugged into a power grid fed by solar, wind and geothermal the U.S.A. with today’s technology could cut our Co2 to zero within five years, The economic benefit would be so great and so far reaching that other countries would follow our lead not because they had to but because they need to keep up and stop losing the billions of dollars pursing a dead industry, i.e. hydrocarbons. Mother Nature had the good sense to hide these poisons deep in the earth and beneath the oceans and like a stupid child the human race dug them up and insists on spewing them into the pristine atmosphere. This must stop.
Yours,
Repoman1121