- March 26, 2007
Bruce Sterling update: Now calling his concept "cybergreens": "They're all about creating irresistible consumer demand for cool objects that will yield a global atmosphere upgrade. It's the Net vs. the 20th-century fossil order in a fight that the cybergreens are winning. Why Because they're not about spiritual potential, human decency, small is beautiful, peace, justice or anything else unattainable. The cybergreens are about stuff people want, such as health, sex, glamour, hot...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/03/25.html#a3467
- March 23, 2007
Reverse Foreign Aid: Important issues with incomplete explanation. "According to the United Nations, in 2006 the net transfer of capital from poorer countries to rich ones was $784 billion, up from $229 billion in 2002. (In 1997, the balance was even.)" Reasons:Since 1990, the world&146;s nonrich nations have increased their reserves, on average, from around three months&146; worth of imports to more than eight months&146; worth &151; or the equivalent of about 30 percent of...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/03/23.html#a3466
- March 23, 2007
IDC: Server shipments slow on spread of virtualization: "Growth in the x86 server market revved slightly in Q4 2006, growing 7.0% in the quarter to $7.2 billion worldwide, its fastest growth rate in five quarters, but unit shipment growth continued to moderate with growth at 1.1% year over year, to 1.85 million servers as customers continued to consolidate their IT infrastructures, .. "For the first time in more than 10 years, average selling values in the quarter increased year over year.
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/03/22.html#a3465
- March 23, 2007
Introduction to Power Line Communications: Simple and short intro, mostly about in-home use, with mention of BPL (broadband over power line) utility applications.
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/03/22.html#a3464
- March 21, 2007
RPS outside the US: "- China will increase its use of renewables as part of a national plan to combat climate change, says the country&146;s environment minister Xie Zhenhua. .. he says the Chinese government will announce a national plan with concrete targets to improve energy efficiency by 20% by 2010 and to increase the proportion of renewables to 10%.- Taiwan Power will spend NT$3.6 billion to install solar panels .. Taiwan imports 98% of its energy and the government wants...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/03/21.html#a3463
- March 21, 2007
Texas Bid Could be First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm: "Jerry Patterson, Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, announced that the state has signed an agreement to allow an offshore wind-energy project in the United States to be built off Galveston Island. .. Work begins immediately on towers to gather data to determine exactly where the 150 MW wind energy development will be built on an 11,355-acre lease about seven miles off the coast of Galveston Island. ..there is only one entity...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/03/21.html#a3462
- March 21, 2007
South Africa: Cape green power plans: "Eskom, local authorities and the private sector are set to launch renewable energy projects that will add at least 350 megawatts of electricity to the national energy grid. The Western Cape uses around 4 000MW of electricity daily, while the entire country uses around 34 000MW, which can go up to 40 000MW at peak demand somewhat less than California. In the recent past there have been regular power outages as Eskom battles to meet the growing...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/03/21.html#a3461
- March 19, 2007
SolarMission Solar Tower Video: "SolarMission Technologies and its Australian subsidiary, EnviroMission Limited
produced this 5 minute video about its early pilot plant in Spain. It
is an older video (2000) but gives a basic understanding of the solar
tower concept." Very effective story.
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/03/18.html#a3460
- March 19, 2007
About Parabolic Trough Solar: Solid review of the field, from Sept 2005.
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/03/18.html#a3459
- March 17, 2007
The Globus Consortium Journal: Overview of Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing workshop. "Among the highlights was an interesting paper from Intel dissecting the
performance of Xen networking. A wonderful adoption scenario was
represented in the work from the University of Marburg where
suspendresume properties of VMs are being used to improve backfill
strategies in the local scheduler - computations running in VMs are
simply suspended when a large parallel job is scheduled.
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/03/16.html#a3458
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