5 million gallons of water is approximately the size of one football field x 12 feet deep... or 360' x 160' x 12'... or if you prefer cubed... about 87.4' cubed of water
Or, instead of an RDBM to manage all of this info, how about a meta-database that allows you to take all the outdated spreadsheed processes of today and put them in a managable solution that allows everything to relate together.
Most of the products that do this today are focused on specific and well financed areas of the economy. Of course, if the easy money is in regulatory compliance and risk management, it would make sense to focus there. On the plus side, once companies buy products like this, often times it becomes viral and eventually takes over those non-wealthy group's processes, improving visibility across the whole company. Almost like one giant intelligent spreadsheet to run the company:)
The two that come to mind for me are Archer Technologies (http://www.archer-tech.com/) and SalesForce's new Force.com stuff (http://www.force.com/)
There are others out there, but not nearly as mature as those two.
You're contradicting the hell out of yourself, so I thought I'd help you out a bit.
This was the second ammendment in the "Bill of Rights" which contained the first 10 ammendments. While you can use the term "add-on"... relegating it to an afterthough is a bullsh*t way of trying to bring the entire bill down.
These ammendments were submitted about 1 year after the ratification of the US Constitution. Beyond the fact that the name of the bill contradicts your statement... the wording of #2 specifically makes your argument false...
Since you seem unaware of it's content, here it is:
"A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
You'll notice "shall not be infringed" explicitly directs that the government not be allowed to prevent the "People" from their arms.
If you familiarize yourself with all of the Ammendments in the Bill of Rights, you'll notice they do, in fact, specificially limit the abilities of government.
Your final statement is only true because of the Tenth Ammendment from the Bill of Rights... stating very clearly that... "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
Hope that helps fix all those pesky uninformed contradictions.
It likely has to do with the types of teachers they have. TFA mentioned 200 educators and 700 kids. If you figure these supposedly highly degreed people make an above average si-valley income which has to be MINimum of $50k [probably more]. That's a little over $14k per kid just to pay for the teacher.
When you add in the cost of the facility, insurance, toys, educational materials, electricity [or solar panels], managerial staff, accounting, etc.... it's not totally unreasonable for that number to double in your average daycare.
Zoom back out to the midwest where your average daycare provider has no advanced degrees. There may be 1 or 2 with good degrees in a daycare with 100+ children. You'd have anywhere between 15-30 children per adult, unlike the 3-4 children per adult @ google.
I think most people not living in the valley and/or not working for a company like this would also find that $1425 number to be shocking. Even the best private schools in my area don't cost that much... but also don't have the student teacher ratio seen @ goog.
Most parents I know are paying about $500/mo for all-day daycare... and similar amounts for all-day pre-school. The prices go up and down depending on quality of staff, facilities, etc... and often the best deals are through local churches [of which we have a ton around here].
Part of my day job involves security of data and compliance with government regulations to that effect...
I can state very simply that the vast majority (90%+) of companies which I've seen have done absolutely nothing to secure their data in any way.
I should state that I'm certain that's not reflective of the real world... as organizations that have their sh*t together aren't nearly as likely to employ our services. However, I'd be willing to bet, given that most companies aren't large and can't afford a security staff, that it may be as high as 75%.
You seem unaware of the massive quantities of educational everything for zero-day children all the way through their teens. It's possible you're simply not a parent. Being a parent myself, and knowing dozens of other parents personally... I can say for certain that educating children before pre-school and K-12 is a huge priority among most of them. And these aren't your elite rich types... though we are in a middle-class middle-american town... the cities may be different.
Just looking at the revenue for things like leapfrog, baby einstein, etc... I'd say more and more parents are focused on teaching their children. But I'd also agree it's more about memorization than problem solving and other valuable skills like reason.
This may be why homeschooling is becoming more and more popular each year.
Looks like one of the absolute best places for off-shore wind is norCal & oregon. But the upper east coast is a close second... beating out any land wind resource.
how close do you have to stand to hear a modern wind turbine
100 yards and they're still relatively audible. On a windier day, assuming wind noise on other objects isn't drowning them out, you can still hear them up to 1/2 mile away [my experience].
If there's information on their dB production at a specific range, you could easily calculate based on the understanding that sound dissipates around -6dB for each doubling of distance.
... but who clicks links on slashdot articles anyway? Here's the wording that scares me the most.
"Any property used, or intended to be used, to commit or facilitate the commission of a violation of subsection..."
It occurs over and over again... and specifically the portion stating "intended to be used". Of course, this makes it easier to knock down in higher courts, but is still extremely unacceptable.
Keep in mind that some have been prosecuted for distributing TV shows that are broadcast over public airwaves. In my experience, illegal or perceived illegal items typically have TERRIBLE download speeds. I think much of this is people locking down their upload capabilities and jumping off when they become a seed.... to avoid being caught by the boogie man.
I have 2 servers colocated at a facility that provides 100mbps connections to each of them.. I routinely download and host legally recorded live music (bt.etree.org). If I see that one of the servers is pulling an item that is pushing 80-100mbps, I will typically start the second server seeding the same music. I've often see it where I'm pushing 150-180mbps total combined bandwidth.
However, due to the nature of most of the leeches and seeds, they often don't have enough upstream bandwidth to allow me to download that well. I typically see peaks of 30-40mpbs on some of the more widely seeded items.
Of course, I can't do this constantly, because I have to pay for bandwidth over a certain total number of bytes... but the times I get to help spread the good stuff faster, I'm always happy to oblige.
If you check out the site where these were built... which I've driven by many times. It's on top of a fairly sized hill that lines the Missouri River valley between Omaha, NE and Kansas City, MO. The wind turbines actually sit on the east side of the valley near the top of a set of larger hills. The elevation change isn't dramatic, but it's easily 150-250ft between the large flat 5mi wide valley and the top of the hill where they've been placed.
I've seen this comment before on/. as well as similar comments about the infant mortality rate being higher in the US than any other country (which means the US healthcare system is teh suck).
I really hate it when I have to do a 2 second lookup to disprove insane claims by US healthcare haters... but here's some help for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mortality_rate
If you get time, it's also interesting to compare birth rates to these numbers. You'll find they're not too far off in a majority of cases. Nations with higher mortality rates often reproduce more. As for why the USA has a higher infant mortality rate than places like Canada... I'd like to see a correlation to other types of data, such as the cause of death.
Let me help this out here. I used to work for a bank. Deposits of significantly less than $10,000 are analysed by a group of people in virtually every bank. More notably, if these are frequent cash deposits of amounts even over $1,000... you're likely to be reported. Now days, virtually all transactions over $2,000 that aren't obvious things like paychecks are analyzed by people within the bank to determine if reporting to the IRS is necessary.
Seriously, it's cheap. Then, every time you register for a site... use a unique email address. I've done this for a good decade now, and many of my security industry friends do the same, for the simplitude of tracking spam, intrusions or sold data from sites we frequent.
I had been with Ameritrade for years before I got my first spam. I immediately contact them and got a similar response about dictionary... obvious bullshit since I didn't get it to any address other than my ameritrade@one-of-my-domains.com. My first step was to immediately change my ameritrade email address to tdameritrade@o-o-m-d.com [with their recent name change it worked], and then blacklist all email to the original. Since that change, I have yet to get spam to the new address.
My bigger concern is that there is a rogue employee selling this data. More often than not security issues like sold data come from insiders who feel underpaid or underappreciated, either trying to get back at the company or make some more dough on their backs.
I've had mine locked for about 18 months now. When I went to buy my new house, I had to call up and let them know to allow it in. Two of them had methods to perform these actions online, the other had a phone number that was about as easy as the national do-not-call list.
This is precisely what I had to do. I saw a portabl HD and a [separate] 802.11n device I wanted on sale at best buy for prices better than anywhere else online at the time... sadly, in my excitement, I didn't bother to order online and pick up... I went into the store. Once there, two much difference prices were listed on the items. The sum total difference was well over $100. So I asked them to look online... and the prices were identical to what were listed in store.
I ran home, printed it out and brought it in. They honored my printed document. But what a PITA. What got me is that these two items were both advertised on the front page. And while cookies and customization could account for something different... I was told to go check it out from several friends who knew I was looking and all saw the same thing... BUT in the store, the front page had neither of the items listed.
What's really sad about this is that it's fairly obvious. If you saw a price online and go in to buy it and they tell you something different... unless it's only a few dollars, you're likely to go prove them wrong [I would think]. And for those who typically do their shopping that way, this would likely have happened numerous times. For myself, this was the only instance.
Regardless... I think most people on slashdot probably try to avoid best buy, given the excellent alternatives like newegg, amazon... or even better brick based sources like MicroCenter or Frys.
I have a 42w2 that was a first generation version. It has massive issues with the PS3 in 1080p mode. Basically it was sparkling on edges of any items.
It turns out that the version of it released in the first 2 months had a chipset in it that didn't comply with some specification... so it can't simply be flashed.
HOWEVER, though getting an actual RMA number took a while, the process was very friendly and customer service was helpful. They're even sending me a new box so I can get my new version.
Sadly, some abusers of the system made them change their rules about sending out a new one before they receive your return, so I'll be without 720p version of TigerWoods 07 for a week... but it'll be worth it. It'll be nice to actually see movies in 1080p, instead of the 1080i I'm forced into right now.
I hear that in the meantime I can push component out at 1080p, since none of the movies require HDCP for it yet... and worry about HDMI when the new one comes.
The price not being worth it is a relative issue. I'm a firm believer that most Apple laptops and the iPod are terribly overpriced. However, that's just an opinion. I also dislike most of your average museum art... which many people would spend vast fortunes obtaining.
My point being: People assign their own personal values to things. The guy who spend $20k building a home-theater in his house isn't going to see a $600 Blu-Ray or HD-DVD player as a great expense. Hell, there's a great chance he spent close to that on a super-high-end DVD player [though probably closer to $400]. If you've got a $400 TV with a $400 stereo and $400 speakers... I'd agree that either format is a complete waste...
I can attest for a good friend of mine [who spends considerably more on home entertainment], when you've dished out $3500 or so for Pre-Amps/Amps and such, $4000 for speakers, $6500 for a 1080p projector and however much that beautiful screen and other required accessories cost... what's $600 for a PS3 [or other 1080p device]?
On a personal note. I have both a Blu-Ray player [PS3] and a 1080p DVD player [HTPC w/ NVIDIA card that does magic to the signal], both going into a 1080p LCD TV.... On a poorly converted DVD title (5th Element) there's not much difference, and you'll feel like you were gyped and it's all a scam. The sound is significantly better, but who's going to give a shit when you don't get to see all the brilliant video detail. However, once you see the difference between an properly encoded Blu-Ray (Black Hawk Down or Ice Age 2), it would be rather dificult to go back.
I love doing the math on this stuff. If we figure that 250mi squared is equiv to approximately 160,000 square kilometers. The average solar panel is about 1.25 square meters and costs about $1500. If we get friendly and just call that $1000 per square meter... That is of course ignoring that this is a concentrator type system, and not panels.... and that this new innovation would be significantly more expensive today....
$1000 per square meter times 160,000 square kilometers =
160,000,000,000 * $1000 = $160,000,000,000,000 = $160 Trillion
Our government currently collection less than 2% of that per year in taxes... CBO predicted 2.1 trillion in tax revenue in 2005.
The top 20 largest companies in the world are only worth a combined 4 trillion...
I'm not sure I believe they're only using 10MW across their entire worldwide campus. I would bet that's a fair number for their datacenter(s).
If they were to do this via solar:
315 peak watts per pannel at 1560mm x 800mm per pannel
31,746 pannels required assuming peak of 10MW and not constant
1.248 square meters per pannel times 31,746
425,000 square feet of space (approximately)
For those still with me, that's 9.8 acres of solar pannels, producing [in that region of CA] approximately 18GWh per year. That's about $3,600,000 worth of energy per year in CA.
Some recommendations: Don't just cover the tops of your buildings. Created additional semi-covered parking with solar pannels atop, consider wind. GE makes one of the most efficient wind turbines out there. For each one of those you can fit on your property, you're likely to save about an acre of land required for solar. And though their peak power coverage isn't as great, they're in operation when the sun's down:)
Unfortunately for google, the wind in cali is not that good for wind power [except offshort]. Though, some parts near the SF area do have slightly better ratings.
I think the one thing that companies overlook is. There's no absolute requirement that being carbon neutral requires you to power your own stuff with the energy. How about investment in a wind farm in southwest kansas [excellent location for wind power]. Or 10 acres of Solar pannels in Mexico? I think helping Mexico reduce carbon usage is probably better (polution wise) than helping the US...
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5 million gallons of water is approximately the size of one football field x 12 feet deep... or 360' x 160' x 12' ... or if you prefer cubed... about 87.4' cubed of water
Or, instead of an RDBM to manage all of this info, how about a meta-database that allows you to take all the outdated spreadsheed processes of today and put them in a managable solution that allows everything to relate together.
Most of the products that do this today are focused on specific and well financed areas of the economy. Of course, if the easy money is in regulatory compliance and risk management, it would make sense to focus there. On the plus side, once companies buy products like this, often times it becomes viral and eventually takes over those non-wealthy group's processes, improving visibility across the whole company. Almost like one giant intelligent spreadsheet to run the company :)
The two that come to mind for me are Archer Technologies (http://www.archer-tech.com/) and SalesForce's new Force.com stuff (http://www.force.com/)
There are others out there, but not nearly as mature as those two.
You're contradicting the hell out of yourself, so I thought I'd help you out a bit.
This was the second ammendment in the "Bill of Rights" which contained the first 10 ammendments. While you can use the term "add-on"... relegating it to an afterthough is a bullsh*t way of trying to bring the entire bill down.
These ammendments were submitted about 1 year after the ratification of the US Constitution. Beyond the fact that the name of the bill contradicts your statement... the wording of #2 specifically makes your argument false...
Since you seem unaware of it's content, here it is:
"A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
You'll notice "shall not be infringed" explicitly directs that the government not be allowed to prevent the "People" from their arms.
If you familiarize yourself with all of the Ammendments in the Bill of Rights, you'll notice they do, in fact, specificially limit the abilities of government.
Your final statement is only true because of the Tenth Ammendment from the Bill of Rights... stating very clearly that... "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
Hope that helps fix all those pesky uninformed contradictions.
It likely has to do with the types of teachers they have. TFA mentioned 200 educators and 700 kids. If you figure these supposedly highly degreed people make an above average si-valley income which has to be MINimum of $50k [probably more]. That's a little over $14k per kid just to pay for the teacher.
When you add in the cost of the facility, insurance, toys, educational materials, electricity [or solar panels], managerial staff, accounting, etc.... it's not totally unreasonable for that number to double in your average daycare.
Zoom back out to the midwest where your average daycare provider has no advanced degrees. There may be 1 or 2 with good degrees in a daycare with 100+ children. You'd have anywhere between 15-30 children per adult, unlike the 3-4 children per adult @ google.
I think most people not living in the valley and/or not working for a company like this would also find that $1425 number to be shocking. Even the best private schools in my area don't cost that much... but also don't have the student teacher ratio seen @ goog.
Most parents I know are paying about $500/mo for all-day daycare... and similar amounts for all-day pre-school. The prices go up and down depending on quality of staff, facilities, etc... and often the best deals are through local churches [of which we have a ton around here].
Part of my day job involves security of data and compliance with government regulations to that effect...
I can state very simply that the vast majority (90%+) of companies which I've seen have done absolutely nothing to secure their data in any way.
I should state that I'm certain that's not reflective of the real world... as organizations that have their sh*t together aren't nearly as likely to employ our services. However, I'd be willing to bet, given that most companies aren't large and can't afford a security staff, that it may be as high as 75%.
You seem unaware of the massive quantities of educational everything for zero-day children all the way through their teens. It's possible you're simply not a parent. Being a parent myself, and knowing dozens of other parents personally... I can say for certain that educating children before pre-school and K-12 is a huge priority among most of them. And these aren't your elite rich types... though we are in a middle-class middle-american town... the cities may be different.
Just looking at the revenue for things like leapfrog, baby einstein, etc... I'd say more and more parents are focused on teaching their children. But I'd also agree it's more about memorization than problem solving and other valuable skills like reason.
This may be why homeschooling is becoming more and more popular each year.
http://www.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/windpoweringamerica/wind_maps.asp -- for a map of the whole USA with coastal stats.
Looks like one of the absolute best places for off-shore wind is norCal & oregon. But the upper east coast is a close second... beating out any land wind resource.
100 yards and they're still relatively audible. On a windier day, assuming wind noise on other objects isn't drowning them out, you can still hear them up to 1/2 mile away [my experience].
If there's information on their dB production at a specific range, you could easily calculate based on the understanding that sound dissipates around -6dB for each doubling of distance.
... but who clicks links on slashdot articles anyway? Here's the wording that scares me the most.
"Any property used, or intended to be used, to commit or facilitate the commission of a violation of subsection..."
It occurs over and over again... and specifically the portion stating "intended to be used". Of course, this makes it easier to knock down in higher courts, but is still extremely unacceptable.
Keep in mind that some have been prosecuted for distributing TV shows that are broadcast over public airwaves. In my experience, illegal or perceived illegal items typically have TERRIBLE download speeds. I think much of this is people locking down their upload capabilities and jumping off when they become a seed.... to avoid being caught by the boogie man.
I have 2 servers colocated at a facility that provides 100mbps connections to each of them.. I routinely download and host legally recorded live music (bt.etree.org). If I see that one of the servers is pulling an item that is pushing 80-100mbps, I will typically start the second server seeding the same music. I've often see it where I'm pushing 150-180mbps total combined bandwidth.
However, due to the nature of most of the leeches and seeds, they often don't have enough upstream bandwidth to allow me to download that well. I typically see peaks of 30-40mpbs on some of the more widely seeded items.
Of course, I can't do this constantly, because I have to pay for bandwidth over a certain total number of bytes... but the times I get to help spread the good stuff faster, I'm always happy to oblige.
I get the impression based upon all the stories posted by SecureThroughObscure that it is either Nate or someone pimping Nate strongly...
If you check out the site where these were built... which I've driven by many times. It's on top of a fairly sized hill that lines the Missouri River valley between Omaha, NE and Kansas City, MO. The wind turbines actually sit on the east side of the valley near the top of a set of larger hills. The elevation change isn't dramatic, but it's easily 150-250ft between the large flat 5mi wide valley and the top of the hill where they've been placed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mortality_rate
If you get time, it's also interesting to compare birth rates to these numbers. You'll find they're not too far off in a majority of cases. Nations with higher mortality rates often reproduce more. As for why the USA has a higher infant mortality rate than places like Canada... I'd like to see a correlation to other types of data, such as the cause of death.
Let me help this out here. I used to work for a bank. Deposits of significantly less than $10,000 are analysed by a group of people in virtually every bank. More notably, if these are frequent cash deposits of amounts even over $1,000... you're likely to be reported. Now days, virtually all transactions over $2,000 that aren't obvious things like paychecks are analyzed by people within the bank to determine if reporting to the IRS is necessary.
That's being done now... see sunpower: http://www.sunpowercorp.com/ 22% efficient pannels and amazing per watt pricing.
Seriously, it's cheap. Then, every time you register for a site... use a unique email address. I've done this for a good decade now, and many of my security industry friends do the same, for the simplitude of tracking spam, intrusions or sold data from sites we frequent.
I had been with Ameritrade for years before I got my first spam. I immediately contact them and got a similar response about dictionary... obvious bullshit since I didn't get it to any address other than my ameritrade@one-of-my-domains.com. My first step was to immediately change my ameritrade email address to tdameritrade@o-o-m-d.com [with their recent name change it worked], and then blacklist all email to the original. Since that change, I have yet to get spam to the new address.
My bigger concern is that there is a rogue employee selling this data. More often than not security issues like sold data come from insiders who feel underpaid or underappreciated, either trying to get back at the company or make some more dough on their backs.
I've had mine locked for about 18 months now. When I went to buy my new house, I had to call up and let them know to allow it in. Two of them had methods to perform these actions online, the other had a phone number that was about as easy as the national do-not-call list.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51834
If all that matters is your BMI.. let me recommend dysentery
This is precisely what I had to do. I saw a portabl HD and a [separate] 802.11n device I wanted on sale at best buy for prices better than anywhere else online at the time... sadly, in my excitement, I didn't bother to order online and pick up... I went into the store. Once there, two much difference prices were listed on the items. The sum total difference was well over $100. So I asked them to look online... and the prices were identical to what were listed in store.
I ran home, printed it out and brought it in. They honored my printed document. But what a PITA. What got me is that these two items were both advertised on the front page. And while cookies and customization could account for something different... I was told to go check it out from several friends who knew I was looking and all saw the same thing... BUT in the store, the front page had neither of the items listed.
What's really sad about this is that it's fairly obvious. If you saw a price online and go in to buy it and they tell you something different... unless it's only a few dollars, you're likely to go prove them wrong [I would think]. And for those who typically do their shopping that way, this would likely have happened numerous times. For myself, this was the only instance.
Regardless... I think most people on slashdot probably try to avoid best buy, given the excellent alternatives like newegg, amazon... or even better brick based sources like MicroCenter or Frys.
It's "Daylight Saving Time" NOT Savings...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
I have a 42w2 that was a first generation version. It has massive issues with the PS3 in 1080p mode. Basically it was sparkling on edges of any items.
It turns out that the version of it released in the first 2 months had a chipset in it that didn't comply with some specification... so it can't simply be flashed.
HOWEVER, though getting an actual RMA number took a while, the process was very friendly and customer service was helpful. They're even sending me a new box so I can get my new version.
Sadly, some abusers of the system made them change their rules about sending out a new one before they receive your return, so I'll be without 720p version of TigerWoods 07 for a week... but it'll be worth it. It'll be nice to actually see movies in 1080p, instead of the 1080i I'm forced into right now.
I hear that in the meantime I can push component out at 1080p, since none of the movies require HDCP for it yet... and worry about HDMI when the new one comes.
The price not being worth it is a relative issue. I'm a firm believer that most Apple laptops and the iPod are terribly overpriced. However, that's just an opinion. I also dislike most of your average museum art... which many people would spend vast fortunes obtaining.
My point being: People assign their own personal values to things. The guy who spend $20k building a home-theater in his house isn't going to see a $600 Blu-Ray or HD-DVD player as a great expense. Hell, there's a great chance he spent close to that on a super-high-end DVD player [though probably closer to $400]. If you've got a $400 TV with a $400 stereo and $400 speakers... I'd agree that either format is a complete waste...
I can attest for a good friend of mine [who spends considerably more on home entertainment], when you've dished out $3500 or so for Pre-Amps/Amps and such, $4000 for speakers, $6500 for a 1080p projector and however much that beautiful screen and other required accessories cost... what's $600 for a PS3 [or other 1080p device]?
On a personal note. I have both a Blu-Ray player [PS3] and a 1080p DVD player [HTPC w/ NVIDIA card that does magic to the signal], both going into a 1080p LCD TV.... On a poorly converted DVD title (5th Element) there's not much difference, and you'll feel like you were gyped and it's all a scam. The sound is significantly better, but who's going to give a shit when you don't get to see all the brilliant video detail. However, once you see the difference between an properly encoded Blu-Ray (Black Hawk Down or Ice Age 2), it would be rather dificult to go back.
I love doing the math on this stuff. If we figure that 250mi squared is equiv to approximately 160,000 square kilometers. The average solar panel is about 1.25 square meters and costs about $1500. If we get friendly and just call that $1000 per square meter... That is of course ignoring that this is a concentrator type system, and not panels.... and that this new innovation would be significantly more expensive today....
$1000 per square meter times 160,000 square kilometers =
160,000,000,000 * $1000 = $160,000,000,000,000 = $160 Trillion
Our government currently collection less than 2% of that per year in taxes... CBO predicted 2.1 trillion in tax revenue in 2005.
The top 20 largest companies in the world are only worth a combined 4 trillion...
I'm not sure I believe they're only using 10MW across their entire worldwide campus. I would bet that's a fair number for their datacenter(s).
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If they were to do this via solar:
315 peak watts per pannel at 1560mm x 800mm per pannel
31,746 pannels required assuming peak of 10MW and not constant
1.248 square meters per pannel times 31,746
425,000 square feet of space (approximately)
For those still with me, that's 9.8 acres of solar pannels, producing [in that region of CA] approximately 18GWh per year. That's about $3,600,000 worth of energy per year in CA.
Some recommendations: Don't just cover the tops of your buildings. Created additional semi-covered parking with solar pannels atop, consider wind. GE makes one of the most efficient wind turbines out there. For each one of those you can fit on your property, you're likely to save about an acre of land required for solar. And though their peak power coverage isn't as great, they're in operation when the sun's down
Unfortunately for google, the wind in cali is not that good for wind power [except offshort]. Though, some parts near the SF area do have slightly better ratings.
http://www.energy.ca.gov/maps/wind/WIND_POWER_50M
I think the one thing that companies overlook is. There's no absolute requirement that being carbon neutral requires you to power your own stuff with the energy. How about investment in a wind farm in southwest kansas [excellent location for wind power]. Or 10 acres of Solar pannels in Mexico? I think helping Mexico reduce carbon usage is probably better (polution wise) than helping the US...