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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My home’s power usage
June 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Our home, as seen from afar
June 9th, 2008 · No Comments
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/multimedia/mro20080303earth.html
Tags: Culture · Ecology · Science
Sun awarded DARPA contract to develop optical processor interconnect
March 24th, 2008 · No Comments
An article by John Markoff describes a project by Sun to create a silicon-based optical interconnect between processor cores (and maybe memory etc). This project should prove interesting and generate advances in computer engineering even if it fails to reach its goal. I look forward to hearing more details as this evolves.
Further, I’m glad to [...]
Tags: Science · Technology
ice age. literally.
March 20th, 2008 · No Comments
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 [...]
