Consider this… According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the electricity usage of data centers, those burning rooms where stacks of computers are stored, will double to 120 billion kilowatt-hours by 2011. That would make the data center industry the single largest user of energy in the US.
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Biomass The Old Daddy of Renewable Energy Sources
June 17th, 2009 
admin You have heard of your ancestors using wood to burn, cook or to light camp fires to keep themselves warm during cold days. You would have done it at one point of the other. Maybe you did not know, but you have been using one of the grandest and oldest forms of biomass for your [...]
Earths Temperature According to NASA
June 17th, 2009 admin Climate Time Machine, not your ordinary time machine that is capable of bringing you to the past and change destiny. Hence, it is a joint project between NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and the California Institute of Technology, NASA’s Climate Time Machine is a web application that allows you to visualize recent changes on earth in [...]
Algae – crawling out of the woodworks?
June 9th, 2009 admin There’s been a lot of news about algae lately. Algae, those simple organisms which grow like plants but are much simpler than them, has an oil content. These are lipids which can be increased by as much as 60% when algae are starved of nutrients. Like in everything in the promise of renewables, there are [...]
History of BEVs and hybrid vehicles
June 3rd, 2009 admin The battery electric vehicle, or BEV, is a type of electric vehicle (EV) that uses chemical energy stored in rechargeable battery packs. As with other electric vehicles, BEVs use electric motors and motor controllers instead of internal combustion engines (ICEs) for propulsion. History of BEVs and hybrid vehicles: 1665 – 1825 – Between 1665 and [...]
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