In my blog entry yesterday I contrasted the energy consumption by conventional PCs with the energy consumption of Sun Rays in combination with our SPARC CMT servers. The net result is that a 2.5 kw photovoltaic installation could provide enough power for 200 clients, enough for a regular community hospital, because a Sun Ray uses less than 1/12th the energy of a PC and our CMT servers can handle many user session in parallel. Today, AHIP-Wire featured this story about the trend of hospitals "going green". The article quotes an architect claiming that "sustainable design can reduce hospitals' energy use by half". Well - there you go. High energy cost is a good motivation to re-think how to architect things. And it is good that being eco friendly now has a hard ROI in energy cost savings.
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Slightly off topic, but fascinating. Motivated by a comment from Paul Scott, I encourage you to visit the web site "pluginamerica". Great information on electric vehicles. I found through pluginamerica this amazing video on youtube. Must be a year or two old when gas prices of $2.50 were considered astronomically high. Folks - the solutions are out there!
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