Global Warming & Computers
As you all know, global warming is a hot topic now-a-days. There is little evidence on how/why its happening and whats our role to prevent or prolong its effect on human kind. From the historical data, it seems some of the factors like more emission of CO2, more energy usage, more usage of non-biodegradable substances etc., can have a effect on the global warming.
What we can do from this known information and to become environment friendly:
1. car pooling / public transportation
2. buying fuel efficient cars (hybrid etc)
3. conservative usage of energy/electricity
4. buying energy efficient systems (Bulbs, Niagara Systems, Galaxy Systems etc)
How computers plays a role in this?
Well, the answer is obvious. Energy usage! Data centers, web hosting facilities, search engines, service hosting companies to name a few requires enormous number of computers which needs to be running 24*7 to provide high availability of 99.9999%. You can imagine the electricity usage and bill we are going to landup.
When buying computers, its very important to consider power usage also into your dollar equation to comeup with true TCO!
Read more about the Niagara Systems and Galaxy Systems, and how it can add a true value (energy efficient, computing power & cost savings) to you!
If you want to know more about global warming and what you can do, here are some good links:
US Environmental Protection Agency
National Geographic Pictures
Gobal Warming Facts
What we can do from this known information and to become environment friendly:
1. car pooling / public transportation
2. buying fuel efficient cars (hybrid etc)
3. conservative usage of energy/electricity
4. buying energy efficient systems (Bulbs, Niagara Systems, Galaxy Systems etc)
How computers plays a role in this?
Well, the answer is obvious. Energy usage! Data centers, web hosting facilities, search engines, service hosting companies to name a few requires enormous number of computers which needs to be running 24*7 to provide high availability of 99.9999%. You can imagine the electricity usage and bill we are going to landup.
When buying computers, its very important to consider power usage also into your dollar equation to comeup with true TCO!
Read more about the Niagara Systems and Galaxy Systems, and how it can add a true value (energy efficient, computing power & cost savings) to you!
If you want to know more about global warming and what you can do, here are some good links:
US Environmental Protection Agency
National Geographic Pictures
Gobal Warming Facts
To deal with global warming, the government needs to immediately plant more trees, and stop cutting them down. It is a major problem they need to deal with. The importance of trees has been understated by "scientists" that truly dont understand the relevance of trees. Dont criticize the importance of the concept until you know all the facts. On top of deforestation, we are polluting the environment. Another contributing factor is modern day energy systems rely on explosion rather than implosion, and this generates heat. Every systems need to be more efficient and work on implosion, so they stay cool. The non-profit energy research organization at http://www.universalsymbiosis.org is active in these areas which will help reverse effects of global warming. I suggest everyone also read "Living Energies" by Callum Coats which explains the work of Victor Schauberger and the importance of trees to our planet. Dont rely on information from the authorities as their advisors dont fully understand the life cycle of the planet. We need to push the authorities to develop forest management and sustainability plans, and this will solve at least part of the problem.
Posted by Steve Hourmouzis on October 02, 2008 at 05:32 PM PDT #
Planting trees is a great idea. Redesigning our environment will be another solution. For example building bike specific roads will make a great change in reducing fossil fuel usage. Start building concrete homes to cut down on tree usage. Wind and solar industry needs to become an industry and not just pie in the sky. This will need multiple solutions.
Posted by Roulette System on June 25, 2009 at 08:12 PM PDT #