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Renewable Energy To Power Aussie SKA

Posted by timothy on from the until-heat-death-of-the-universe dept.

schliz writes "New solar and geothermal energy facilities are being built in Australia to provide sustainable energy for the region's Square Kilometer Array (SKA) bid. The Australian Government yesterday announced A$47.3m in funding for a full-scale, hybrid solar and diesel plant for the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, and geothermal energy facilities for the Pawsey High-Performance Computing Centre, where data from SKA radio telescopes would be processed. ASKAP is part of the Australasian bid to host the $2.5 billion Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which involves 20 countries and will investigate galaxy evolution, dark matter, and the existence of life. IBM expects the whole of the SKA to produce an exabyte of data per day."

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  1. The down side by Barny · · Score: 4, Funny

    The unfortunate side effects:

    1. A massive amount of hardware has been required to filter all the content from the SKA to the data-centre, just in case it has any "NC" information in it.

    2. All pictures of "Uranus" will be blocked.

    3. Attempting to focus in on a picture of a "Black Hole" will have the whole thing disabled for upto a year.

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    /me sighs
  2. ugh by deathtopaulw · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ska is a bad enough genre without getting the green movement and the australians in on it.

    1. Re:ugh by imakemusic · · Score: 2, Funny

      You'd prefer some kind of ska-fusion?

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      Brain surgery - it's not rocket science!
  3. SKA? This is Madness! by Zeussy · · Score: 4, Funny

    One Step Beyond!

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    Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game
    1. Re:SKA? This is Madness! by sea4ever · · Score: 2, Funny

      No.
      THIS. IS. AUSTRALIAAAAAAAAA!!!!

      *kicks into the black hole that's about to be destroyed*

  4. Cool! by mweather · · Score: 3, Funny

    I love Aussie Ska! The Allniters are one of my favorite bands!

  5. They will probably need... by Yaa+101 · · Score: 2, Funny

    They will probably need Skatalites for some exiting soundbites each day...