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Recently I attached a multimeter to my home’s main electrical feed with a current clamp, and let it log around 24 hours of data. It’s summer and it’s hot, so I have several air-conditioners running (window units; I have an old home). There are my servers (running Linux), as well. And in the evening of [...]

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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/multimedia/mro20080303earth.html

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From the BBC, by way of Greenpeace, I stumbled across this scary graphic:

Just looking at the graph, that’s about a 50% growth in the proportion of young ice versus older ice. The graphic doesn’t portray absolute figures, just percentages. But since we know the ice cover is shrinking overall this means that older ice is [...]

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A funny post on the Greenpeace blog, about their presentation at the recent CeBIT show. They reference an article in The Register talking about the show. To summarize the article in one quote, “a refreshingly frank IBM spokesman said energy consumption had been driven up the agenda because power costs had been driven up the [...]

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