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We’ve all stared at cooling towers. How many of you thought hey let’s see if we can recover some of the energy from the falling water? Think it’s not worth it? Honda didn’t.
They were able to get 5.3 kW from the turbine.
Saving energy is something everyone knows is good when you can maintain environmental conditions for equipment. Here are two different examples. One is Google in a data centers with its servers and another from Honda in its painting process.
First Google’s Joe Kava explains what was done to improve the cooling system performance.
2nd is Honda explaining what it did to save 25% energy consumption in its cooling system for painting processes.
At the 1:21 mark the Honda Engineer explains the energy savings. http://youtu.be/bKLPXvZytIs?t=1m21s
This Honda video was so good it won an award.
Honda's Environmental Short Film Series Receives National Award Recognition
Telly Award recognizes outstanding "Green/Eco Friendly" video content6/24/2013 12:00:00 PM
The first film in Honda's Environmental Short Film Series, Paint by Numbers, has been awarded two Telly Awards in the Green/Eco-Friendly and Social Responsibility categories. The Telly Awards, now in its 34th season, honors the best film and video productions, groundbreaking online video content, and outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs.
Honda's Environmental Short Film Series highlights some remarkable initiatives - dreamed up and developed by Honda associates - that fulfill the company's vision for reducing its environmental impact and creating a sustainable future. Paint by Numbers, the first film in the series, tells the story of how Honda engineer Shubho Bhattacharya was inspired to develop technology to reduce the energy needed to operate the auto body painting system at Honda's manufacturing plant in Marysville, Ohio. Auto body painting accounts for the most energy use in Honda's production process. With the help of his fellow associates, Bhattacharya conceived Honda's Intelligent Paint Technology, which has cut Honda's North American manufacturing CO2 emissions by about 10,000 metric tons per year.
"Honda associates are always dreaming up innovative ways to reduce our environmental impact," said Marcos Frommer of Honda North America, Inc., one of the producers of the film series. "Short films are a great way to share our associates' sustainability initiatives, and we're honored to receive this recognition from the Telly Awards."
WSJ has an interesting post on 4 different group of university students. The surprise is Business majors are bored and not the most financially secure compared to others.
Business is the most popular course of undergraduate study at U.S. colleges and universities. It is also the one most likely to produce people bored with their jobs.
This graphic illustrates the 4 different groups.
One of the parts of using those free cloud apps is those who run the service can spy on you and even cut you off. This has occurred with the Hong Kong protesters and their choice of using Firechat which allows communication to others without internet access.
Hong Kong protestors use FireChat to text without cell service
Hong Kong protestors are using FireChar, a mobile messaging app, to communicate without using cellular or Internet service. Pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong downloaded the app 100,000 times in just one day.
By Bryan Cronan, Staff Writer OCTOBER 1, 2014
What do the protests in Hong Kong and the festival Burning Man have in common? FireChat.
Protestors in Hong Kong are using the messaging app FireChat to communicate without using cellular or Internet service.
Venturebeat has a guest post suggesting there will be more services that skip the cloud to support those who want to be private.
In 2015, popular online social networks will be reduced to serving for social branding, and a next generation of apps using peer-to-peer networking instead of cloud computing will be used for texting and image and video sharing.
The exodus from popular social networks will be accelerated by increasing revelations of both the storing and monitoring of personal communications by the government, and experimentation on users of social networks for the financial benefit of third parties. The exodus, like most all technological trends, will be led by the young and the tech-savvy, and the rest of the worlds’ users will slowly follow as technology inevitably spreads.
What do the protests in Hong Kong and the festival Burning Man have in common? FireChat.
Protestors in Hong Kong are using the messaging app FireChat to communicate without using cellular or Internet service.
eBay and Paypal are becoming two independent companies. They have CEOs identified. Figuring out how the stock will be split. Teams are separate so not an issue except for a few groups. Finance and HR issues not a big problem. uh. What about the data centers? Will eBay run the data centers and Paypal be a tenant? Or should it be the the around?
eBay Inc. today said its Board of Directors, following a strategic review of the company’s growth strategies and structure, has approved a plan to separate the company’s eBay and PayPal businesses into independent publicly traded companies in 2015, subject to customary conditions. Creating two standalone businesses best positions eBay and PayPal to capitalize on their respective growth opportunities in the rapidly changing global commerce and payments landscape, and is the best path for creating sustainable shareholder value, the company said.
“eBay and PayPal are two great businesses with leading global positions in commerce and payments,” said eBay Inc. President and CEO John Donahoe. “For more than a decade eBay and PayPal have mutually benefited from being part of one company, creating substantial shareholder value. However, a thorough strategic review with our board shows that keeping eBay and PayPal together beyond 2015 clearly becomes less advantageous to each business strategically and competitively. The industry landscape is changing, and each business faces different competitive opportunities and challenges.
Or is it like Gwyneth Paltrrow’s infamous not naming a divorce, a conscious uncoupling? Each of the companies own their own servers, storage, network. OK. But what about shared stuff. Building, power and mechanical infrastructure, network gear to carriers? Some of that other stuff is like the kids that Gwenyth has to handle in uncoupling.
Who is bigger eBay or Paypal? Not in terms of revenue, but in terms of data center utilization? Paypal or eBay? I think PayPal and some of the friends do. So do you split the infrastructure and teams based on the % of servers you have in the data center? No, because some of you may have beefier servers than others. You could split it based on the power used.
There are three data center sites? And given availability it would seem both would like to leave things alone and not mess with then infrastructure. So who moves out? Or is it shared custody.
This would be an entertaining presentation at a data center conference.
