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BlogsTags > energyFour short links: 24 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 24, 2013 Solar Energy: This is What a Disruptive Technology Looks Like (Brian McConnell) — In 1977, solar cells cost upwards of $70 per Watt of capacity. In 2013, that cost has dropped to $0.74 per Watt, a 100:1 improvement (source: The … Industrial Internet links: smart cities return, pilotless commercial aircraft, and moreBy Jon BrunerJanuary 7, 2013 Mining the urban data (The Economist) — The “smart city” hype cycle has moved beyond ambitious top-down projects and has started to produce useful results: real-time transit data in London, smart meters in Amsterdam. The next step, if Singapore has … Four short links: 20 June 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJune 20, 2012 Researcher Chats To Hacker Who Created The Virus He's Researching -- Chicken: I didn’t know you can see my screen. Hacker: I would like to see your face, but what a pity you don’t have a camera. Economist on QR Codes -- Three-quarters of American online retailers surveyed by Forrester, a research firm, use them. In April nearly 20%... The IT Energy Challenge
By Sarah SorensenSeptember 12, 2011 How do you balance 10 percent of the world's energy consumption with technology's potential to push the boundaries and redefine the world as we presently experience it? How do you balance 3 percent of the world's emissions with a promise to connect and support opportunities on a scale that will improve our personal, business, and civic lives? Four short links: 3 August 2011
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 3, 2011 Just Say No To Freegal -- an interesting view from the inside, speaking out against a music licensing system called Freegal which is selling to libraries. Libraries typically buy one copy of something, and then lend it out to multiple users sequentially, in order to get a good return on investment. Participating in a product like Freegal means that... The smart grid data delugeBy Ciara ByrneJune 22, 2011 The smart grid is an information revolution for utilities, and the first line of the information the grid uses will come from smart meters. EMeter's Aaron DeYonker discusses meter use and data applications in this interview. The smart grid data deluge June 22, 2011 The smart grid is an information revolution for utilities, and the first line of the information the grid uses will come from smart meters. EMeter's Aaron DeYonker discusses meter use and data applications in this interview. Can we capture all the world's carbon emissions? May 20, 2011 Capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has major challenges, but it can be done at a price that would not destroy our economy. Doing so would give us more time to find ways to switch to inherently zero-carbon methods of powering our civilization. Interest in renewable energy could benefit data services
By Michael FerrariApril 28, 2011 The increase of large-scale infrastructure investments in the alternative energy sector will likely be accompanied by demand for data-driven services that can optimize efficiency of the related operational costs. The Moore's Law of solar energy April 19, 2011 If humanity could capture one tenth of one percent of the solar energy striking the Earth, we would have access to 6X as much energy as we consume in all forms today, with almost no greenhouse gas emissions. The Watering Hole - Not My Problem...
By James TurnerOctober 1, 2010 The day that Ted Kennedy announced his opposition to the Cape Wind project because it spoiled the view of Cape Cod, I officially declared a pox on both (Democratic and Republican) their houses. There are no good guys, only competing special interests. Who, me, cynical? The Watering Hole - RIsky Businesses
By James TurnerSeptember 28, 2010 I showed my son The China Syndrome last week. Remember the good old days when the worst energy thing we had to worry about was nuclear power? Data is not binaryBy Gavin StarksJune 30, 2010 Open data isn't just about re-broadcasting data, but combining it, re-using it and building upon it. It's about creating new uses, creating new markets and building credibility into the data as it flows. Pushing the Boundaries of the Sustainable Network
By Sarah SorensenNovember 11, 2009 As more and more of our activities are translated to the digitial world, we need to ask the question "Is the sustainable network unsustainable?" How do you balance 3+% of the world's emissions coming from a single industry with the potential to lessen environmental impacts of virtually every other industry? From Pond Scum to Powerhouse: Algae Biofuels Day in the Sun 
By Kurt CagleSeptember 24, 2009 The use of algae as biofuel has also become one of the hottest areas of development in an increasingly aggressive alternative energy sector. Large, traditional oil companies are increasingly creating joint ventures with bio-savvy startups, while others, seeking an opportunity in pond scum, are going it alone. Energy Revolution is Equal Parts ET and IT
By Sarah SorensenSeptember 15, 2009 I had the privilege of hearing Thomas Friedman talk about his latest book, Hot, Flat and Crowded and how accelerated globalization is presenting us all with new challenges and opportunities that need to be met head on if we want to sustain our planet and way of life. Challenges and opportunities that will not only take innovations in energy technology, but also information and communications technology... Four short links: 5 August 2009
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 4, 2009 Reboot Britain Video Archive -- video from the talks at Reboot Britain are online. The event also produced a essay set (PDF), CC-licensed. (via Paul Reynolds) Revealing Errors -- Benjamin Mako Hill blog using computer errors as starting points for understanding how computers control the world around us. (via Dan Meyer) New Microbe Strain Makes More Electricity, Faster --... Four short links: 29 July 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 29, 2009 Bioweathermap -- crowdsourcing the gathering of environmental samples for DNA sequencing to study the changing distribution of microbial life. Another George Church project. (via timoreilly at Twitter) We Are All African Now -- a great article about our genetic history and the computational genomics that makes it possible. (via Tim Bray) Standing Out In The Crowd -- OSCON keynote... Four short links: 9 July 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 8, 2009 Ten Rules That Govern Groups -- valuable lessons for all who would create or use social software, each backed up with pointers to the social science study about that lesson. Groups breed competition: While co-operation within group members is generally not so much of a problem, co-operation between groups can be hellish. People may be individually co-operative, but once... Four short links: 19 June 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJune 19, 2009 Inside-Out Multiplication Table -- very cool way to view the patterns of factors. Math is beauty with subscripts. High-Speed Camera -- capture 100 frames at up to 1M frames/second. The sample videos, of a bullet liquefying on impact and a shotgun string boiling past, are stunning. The Makezine high-speed photography kit is the cheap amateur version. Open Source Energy... Four short links: 17 June 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJune 17, 2009 NY Times Mines Its Data To Identify Words That Readers Find Abstruse -- the feature that lets you highlight a word on a NY Times web page and get more information about it is something that irritates me. I'm fascinated by the analysis of their data: boggling that sumptuary is less perplexing than solipsistic. Louche (#3 on the list)... Four short links: 16 June 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJune 16, 2009 Dealing with Election Results Data -- taking the raw UK European election data into Google's Fusion Tables to try and make sense of it. More cloud-based tools for the data scientist within. (via Simon Willison) Time for an Open 311 API -- "311" is the US number to call for non-emergency municipal services. There have been a lot of... Four short links: 6 May 2009
By Nat TorkingtonMay 5, 2009 Hamster Wheel Maps -- Jack Schulze has created an interesting way to see the world, in the form of "horizonless maps". The city unfolds in front of you like it was built on the inside of a hamster wheel and you're the hamster. Wired UK shipped an enormous foldout version. Why Pig Flu is Better Than Bird Flu: Open... Four short links: 1 May 2009
By Nat TorkingtonMay 1, 2009 A Little Give and Take On Electricity (NY Times) -- Dennis L. Arfmann, a lawyer at the Boulder office of Hogan & Hartson who specializes in environmental law, said he had no idea how much electricity he and his wife, Dr. Julie Brown, had used before he filled his roof with solar panels producing 4.5 kilowatts of power. During... Four short links: 27 Apr 2009
By Nat TorkingtonApril 27, 2009 Google Server and Data Center Details -- Greg Linden reports on a Efficient Data Center Summit. Google uses single volt power and on-board uninterruptible power supply to raise efficiency at the motherboard from the norm of 65-85% to 99.99%. There is a picture of the board on slide 17. (and this is a 2005 board). Greg has left Microsoft... Four short links: 8 Apr 2009
By Nat TorkingtonApril 8, 2009 Bias, RFCs, virus batteries, and a glimpse at life beyond record labels (the last item features profanity, beware): Bias We Can Believe In (Mind Hacks) -- Vaughn asks the tricky question about the current enthusiasm for Behavioural Economics in government: where are the sceptical voices? As he points out, It's perhaps no accident that almost all the articles cite a... XBRL: the Solution for Carbon Credit and Smart Grid Accounting
By Kurt CagleFebruary 26, 2009 During the State of the Union speech, President Obama made formal an assumption that had been emerging since his candidacy - his support for a carbon market as a vehicle for capping carbon emissions: Four short links: 20 Feb 2009
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 20, 2009 Accessibility, trails, Pacman, and power today. Have a fun weekend! Social Accessibility Project -- clever IBM approach to solving web accessibility problems: a sidebar for Firefox that lets people with assistive devices like screenreaders say "hey, I had this problem with this page", and a crowd will help fix it. (via Derek Featherstone's Webstock talk, notes here) Why I Want... Google's PowerMeter. It's Cool, but don't Bogart My Meter DataBy Jim StogdillFebruary 17, 2009 Google, love what you are doing with Smart Meter energy consumption visualization, but don't Bogart my meter data! Four short links: 21 Jan 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 21, 2009 In today's edition: the spread of fake news, keeping track of your real power use, a Javascript library and a less-than-impressed take on mobile location apps. Echo Chamber - the British tabloid The Sun posted a story that turned out to be fabricated. This site tracked that story's spread and uncritical acceptance by other news outlets and web sites. Real... Email letter from 2019
By Kurt CagleJanuary 21, 2009 I miss a few things - we don't get oranges this far North as often as we used to, and coffee and cocoa have become considerably more dear. Shipping has gone way up on them and because a lot of the cacoa growing areas were overfarmed in the last decades, but overall I'm not hauling around an extra fifty kilos of fat due to lack of exercise and processed fast food - can't argue the beneft of that. Printing Solar Panels
By Kurt CagleJanuary 15, 2009 Solar power represents in many ways the purest form of energy available to our energy hungry culture. The sun's energy is endlessly renewable (well, for at least the next three billion years or so, at which point, we'll likely have too much of it), produces no greenhouse gases, and is available nearly anywhere. Pedal Powered Petaflops
By Kurt CagleJanuary 15, 2009 Chances are that when you think about supercomputing, you think about big machines (or lots of machines) all running full bore while performing complex calculations to determine weather patterns or wind-tunnel simulations. Secondarily is the assumption about power - you need lots of it, as well as ways of cooling those systems down (which requires even more power). Food, Technology, and EnergyBy chromaticJanuary 6, 2009 What are the true costs of getting fresh strawberries in Oregon in January? I don't know. Can we find out? Analysis 2009: Energy Sector Faces Volatile Year
By Kurt CagleJanuary 6, 2009 Here in Victoria, my corner gas station has a liter of regular unleaded gas for CAN$0.80, about US$3.00 a gallon. Six months ago, a similar liter cost nearly $1.50, more than $6 a gallon when factoring in the dramatic... O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures Invests in Amee
By Tim O'ReillyDecember 13, 2008 I'm pleased to announce that on Wednesday, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, our VC affiliate, closed an investment in UK-based Amee, which bills itself as "the world's energy meter." Here's their description of what they do: AMEE’s aim is to map, measure and track all the energy data on Earth. This includes aggregating every emission factor and methodology related to CO2 and... DIY Appliances on the Web?By Jim StogdillNovember 18, 2008 The appliance is moving up the stack in the enterprise data center. How about open hardware appliances on the web? Radar Theme: Clean Energy Tech
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 8, 2008 [This is part of a series of posts that briefly describe the trends that we're currently tracking here at O'Reilly] All civilization depends on energy, and always has done so. Oil is rising rapidly in price and alternative energy and energy consumption management have become viable businesses. We're interested in the IT use of energy technology (green data centers) and... Energy Savings, Strange Attractors, ...By Jim StogdillAugust 1, 2008 ... the Intrinsic Cost of State Change, Orbiting Alien Voyeurs, and 200 Square Kilometers of Solar Panels Somewhere in Texas The Silicon Valley Leadership Group and Berkeley National Labs recently published the results of their first Data Center Demonstration Project (pdf). (Disclosure: My colleague Teresa Tung of Accenture R+D labs was the report's principal author). The study follows up on... Energy Savings, Strange Attractors, ...By Jim StogdillJuly 31, 2008 Recent report validates estimates in EPA report to Congress on data center energy savings. Bill Coleman to keynote Velocity
By Jesse RobbinsJune 11, 2008 Bill Coleman has twice transformed our industry, and I'm excited to announce that he will keynote Velocity later this month. Bill is most famous for being the "B" in BEA and for leading the creation of Solaris while at Sun. He is now the CEO of his new startup, Cassatt, which "makes Data Centers more efficient". Bill is awesome and... Africa's Energy Deficit: Energy Hacks Can Make A Difference
By Ben LoricaJune 4, 2008 About six weeks ago I came across this quote from a Wall Street Journal article and I have been pondering it ever since: Africa has the capacity to generate about 63 gigawatts of power for roughly 770 million people -- about what Spain produces for its population of 40 million. For most African countries, the World Bank estimates that universal... Special Purpose Computing Focuses on Energy EfficiencyBy Jim StogdillMay 15, 2008 Researchers turn to specialized hardware design to reduce supercomputer power consumption by an order of magnitude. Fermi's Paradox and the End of Cheap Oil
By Tim O'ReillyMay 5, 2008 I've been thinking of Fermi's Paradox since I saw the documentary film A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash, with its dire predictions of the wars and disruptions that could occur on the downward slope of the Hubbert curve. While I remain an optimist about the power of human ingenuity to surmount enormous challenges, I have enough sense of history... Data Center heating the Town Pool
By Jesse RobbinsApril 4, 2008 According to GreenerComputing.com: A public swimming pool in Zurich will soon be heated for the comfort of local residents, thanks to an innovative solution: heat generated by a data center that would otherwise be classified as waste. The new data center in Zurich is one of three projects in Europe and the Middle East that IBM has announced in recent... Wattzon.org - How much energy we consume and what to do about it
By Tim O'ReillyMarch 20, 2008 Saul Griffith has published a version of his talk at ETech as a website, wattzon.org. Saul's key points: Solving global warming is an engineering problem. We know the connection between greenhouse gases and global warming, and can determine just... Steve Souders asks: "How green is your web page?"
By Jesse RobbinsMarch 8, 2008 Steve Souders, my Velocity conference Co-Chair and author of High Performance Websites, gave me permission to repost this great analysis: How green is your web page? Writing faster web pages is great for your users, which in turn is great... @ETech: Tuesday Morning Keynotes
By Jimmy GutermanMarch 6, 2008 Saul Griffith started the day with a sober, but ultimately hopeful, talk about energy literacy. The subtitle of the talk was "know what you can do, do what you can," and the core of his talk (we'll point to the... The Shipyard Returns
By Dale DoughertyFebruary 23, 2008 Last May, I wrote about the City of Berkeley closing down The Shipyard. A communal workspace for artists and alternative techies, The Shipyard was organized by Jim Mason; it was built as stacks of shipping containers. After the shutdown notice... Visualizing CO2 Emissions
By Tim O'ReillyDecember 1, 2007 Over on the howtoons blog, Saul Griffith writes: I really like the way this advertisement demonstrates how the energy we use, when produced by fossil fuels, leads to Carbon Dioxide emissions. Carbon Dioxide is normally invisible which is why we... 1 to 50 of 55 Next Stay Connected
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