hi.
On Apr 3, 2009, at 12:11 AM, Paul Flint wrote:
Ah, I always wondered why I purchased that shipping container next
to my house...
Paul:
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That shipping container wouldn't, by chance, have a a desire to become
the next super-high-density server farm in Vermont?
Perhaps VAGUE could get funding from the New Boom, for some kind of
environmentally sustainable data-center to replicate the Google/Sun/
IBM style systems... I would be astonished if Google were actually
awarded a real patent on this configuration, seeing as it has existed
for decades in other contexts (such as Telco).
Consider the energy implications of placing such a farm up here in
Vermont, where the weather is cool most of the time--- as compared to
LA, for example! One could even go so far as to start imagining some
kind of ground-based heat-pump style system... or, even to bury the
containers in the nutrient-rich Vermont Mud. Then again, perhaps it
would be a good way to heat the house in the winter, kind of like the
super-efficient energy neutral homes and buildings people are starting
to build these days, like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_energy_building
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house. Would local
"alternative energy companies" such as NRG also want in?
Google has been considering the environmental aspects of running such
environmentally friendly server farms for some time: http://weblog.infoworld.com/sustainableit/archives/2007/11/google_green_en.html
, with some current status indicated in the Zero Energy article above.
We could call it the VAGUE Lights Out Virtual Environment Regeneration
System.
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:-)
have a day.yad
jdpf
