“As the use of the Internet continues to grow and massive computing facilities are demanding that performance keep doubling, devoting corresponding increases in the nation’s electrical energy capacity to computing may become too expensive.” [National Academy of Sciences] A central tenet of nearly all Internet energy forecasts is that there will continue to be improvements…
Around the world when countries make major oil and gas discoveries there follows if not celebrating in the streets, high fives in the halls of governments. It’s no surprise. The world runs on hydrocarbons, and will for a long time. If you find ‘em, you can cut your import deficits. And if you have enough,…
“Welcome to EARTH — a highly ambitious [European Union] … project, investigating the energy efficiency of mobile communication systems." … Mobile telecommunication networks are increasingly contributing to global energy consumption. So, does efficiency, less energy per unit of traffic, cut demand?
Summer’s not over until September 21st. There’s still time for productive summer reading. Here’s three new books, each with deep relevance to issues of our times.
Thank you Media Matters, for an efficient summary of the terms of the energy debate. I know it’s their job to cast issues like energy in the framework of “conservatives” who “rubber stamp” what Romney is proposing, and “liberals” who oppose it. Fair enough. But if the best, the core, of what they can come up…
The American, Saturday, August 25, 2012 Today’s techno-pessimists say technology and America have plateaued. Such naysayers flourish during economic recessions. They have been wrong in every one of the 19 economic downturns we have experienced since 1912. They’re wrong again.
