Renewable Energy for the Data Center?

rohar asks: "The ISP/Carrier/Colo company I work for has just announced a new 'green' program. Although this is a step forward, they don't have a comprehensive environmental sustainability plan. I have been leading an open renewable energy project and I think we have 2 novel ideas for scalable and reliable renewable electrical power, the Solar Ammonia Absorption Convection Tower and the Compressed Air Wind Electrical Generation System. Do you have new ideas (Solar PV has been done, for example) for renewable power generation and conservation for the data center and other areas of industry?"

Comments

Stop with all the nonsense.

[Jartan]

This is simple physics!

1) Wind does not create enough potential kinetic energy to serve as a useful coal/petrol replacement.
2) Current solar conversion systems do not have anywhere near the efficiency to serve as a useful coal/petrol replacement.
3) Even if we get "green" on energy usage the requirements of running civilization will continue to escalate rapidly.

We need to concentrate on reality here! Yes we need to cut down pollution to stop greenhouse warming but pretending warm fuzzy solutions will work is just a waste of time. The environmentalists need to just suck up their guts and admit it's time for nuclear as we don't have any other working solutions on the drawing board.