So yes, Equinix in that case did everything by the book. They had everything setup as you would set it up. It was no big deal. But something went wrong at the worst time for it to go wrong and all hell broke loose.
As a previous customer in that facility who had equipment there, I can say that it was a HUGE deal. Equinix argues that their price premium (typically 3x what other datacenter facilities charge) is because you absolutely, positively won't ever go down because of them. After the outage you specified, as well as other problems they experienced, we moved a huge environment out to a datacenter in Oakbrook.
I'm not looking for 100% uptime, but don't rape me on datacenter space and tell me it's ever so fantastic, and then whine that there's nothing you could do when you go down for 12 hours.
That 7 cents per Kwh is flat rate too. If I switch to time of day metering, I can go as low as 2 cents per Kwh between midnight and 4am, but as high as 13 cents per Kwh around noon. I work during the day though, so all my energy consumption occurs at night.
The trick is to have the recycling facility physically close to the generation plant (on-site even). No transportation significantly reduces the security risk.
Yep, in the US. One of my other posts/replies point's out Carter's executive order. I find it silly to waste such a valuable source of energy, but then again, this wouldn't be the first (nor the last) time.
Are you taking into account reprocessing existing waste using breeder reactors? I recent Scientific American article postulates that with the current nuclear waste/fuel in use already, we have several centuries of fissile material available to us (if reprocessing is used). Therefore, the fuel used to mine the fissile material is a sunk cost, and is spread over a much larger amount of generated power.
I currently pay 7 cents per KWH to ComEd for nuclear power. I'm not sure what others downstate pay to AmerinIP for coal-fired power, but I happily pay an extra cents per KWH to know I'm not dumping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
P.S. 7 cents/KWh is still cheap compared to a majority of other energy sources (natural gas, oil, etc).
You're correct. By law, power plants can't recycle their nuclear waste (hence, the "once-through" process). This is because if you recycle the waste, you're able to make weapons-grade material.
Indeed. This is referred to as "well-to-wheel" efficiencies. Electric always wins, as the emissions controls on a power plant are always superior to those on individual ICEs.
Tesla Motors partnered with Lotus to overcome the hurdles you outline. A lot of design work is out of Mountain View (near Google), and manufacturing is done in the UK.
I have nuclear power in the Chicago area (www.comed.com). I've checked, and it's not heavily subsidized. I purchased a Tesla Roadster to both reduce my oil use as well as to help fund Tesla Motors.
Let me build on what you posted. Assume you also put in a solid state hard drive. The power consumption would be extremely low, and you could use them in offices across the country with little need to admin a full Windows environment.
Abstract: New findings were announced on 2003/01/08 by S. Kopeikin, claiming to have measured the "speed of gravity" and finding it essentially equal to the speed of light. These findings are invalid by both experimental and theoretical standards because the quantity measured was already known to propagate at the speed of light. The hyped claims therefore do a disservice to science in general and the advancement of physics in particular because the announced findings do not represent the meaning of the actual experimental results and cannot possibly represent the physical quantity heretofore called "the speed of gravity", which has already been proved by six experiments to propagate much faster than light, perhaps billions of times faster. Several mainstream relativists have also stated their disagreement that the experiment really measured what it claimed to measure.
Emphasis is mine. If you're interested, we can dig up more research on it, as it's a subject that interests me (anything that is faster then light is a cause for celebration).
Wouldn't that be a hoot? Discovering gravitational radiation using your new fangled communication device, which just obsoleted itself by discovering a new communications method (supposedly, if gravitational radiation could be used to send communications, the communication would be instantaneous due to the properties of gravity).
That's what UDP is for chief =) All joking aside, a whole new set of protocols are going to need to be created to deal with the inherent latency due to that good ol' speed o' light limitation.
NASA already does this with the DSN (Deep Space Network, Google/Wikipedia it), although they use the DSN to ensure they can always communication with objects in space no matter what the orientation the Earth is at that moment.
Running this laser communications system at each DSN ground station, and taking advantage of the ground communications links already in place would be a boon considering the limited bandwidth currently available via radio-only communications systems.
Running a separate circuit of high-voltage (200-600V) cabling in a matrix through datacenter walls should be standard practice if you're in a high-risk neighborhood (such as the one CI Host is at). Just make sure to let the fire captain at your local fire station know, and perhaps give them some sort of remote EPO capability.
Bullshit. I want one site to go to that handles all of my video rental needs. Netflix fulfills this, and for only $16 I might add. If I wanted a bunch of crap videos, I can go to YouTube any day.b
I didn't mean to come off brash, and I apologize if I did so. My only contention is with your assertion that it's not a mass production car. Tesla Motors has already sold the first 100 cars, and I anticipate they'll sell the next 500-1000 easily. That's what it takes to get to mass production. Slowly, the cost will come down, and you'll be able to get a Tesla Roadster one day for (I hope) $30,000USD.
I have a big problem with fuel cells because of the need for a hydrogen infrastructure (which is never going to happen).
You have fun trying to get hydrogen to fuel your "production fuel cell car." I, on the other hand, am going to take my 2008 Tesla Roadster (already have my production number) that I can charge anywhere and enjoy my low emission driving (in northern Illinois, all power provided is generated at nuclear power plants via ComEd). And yes, nuclear power is cleaner than coal generation. Google for it.
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As a previous customer in that facility who had equipment there, I can say that it was a HUGE deal. Equinix argues that their price premium (typically 3x what other datacenter facilities charge) is because you absolutely, positively won't ever go down because of them. After the outage you specified, as well as other problems they experienced, we moved a huge environment out to a datacenter in Oakbrook.
I'm not looking for 100% uptime, but don't rape me on datacenter space and tell me it's ever so fantastic, and then whine that there's nothing you could do when you go down for 12 hours.
That 7 cents per Kwh is flat rate too. If I switch to time of day metering, I can go as low as 2 cents per Kwh between midnight and 4am, but as high as 13 cents per Kwh around noon. I work during the day though, so all my energy consumption occurs at night.
The trick is to have the recycling facility physically close to the generation plant (on-site even). No transportation significantly reduces the security risk.
No worries =)
Yep, in the US. One of my other posts/replies point's out Carter's executive order. I find it silly to waste such a valuable source of energy, but then again, this wouldn't be the first (nor the last) time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
Are you taking into account reprocessing existing waste using breeder reactors? I recent Scientific American article postulates that with the current nuclear waste/fuel in use already, we have several centuries of fissile material available to us (if reprocessing is used). Therefore, the fuel used to mine the fissile material is a sunk cost, and is spread over a much larger amount of generated power.
P.S. 7 cents/KWh is still cheap compared to a majority of other energy sources (natural gas, oil, etc).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing
Use of breeder reactors combined with reprocessing could extend the usefulness of mined uranium by more than 60 times.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
As usual, politics gets in the way of technology.
Indeed. This is referred to as "well-to-wheel" efficiencies. Electric always wins, as the emissions controls on a power plant are always superior to those on individual ICEs.
Tesla Motors partnered with Lotus to overcome the hurdles you outline. A lot of design work is out of Mountain View (near Google), and manufacturing is done in the UK.
I have nuclear power in the Chicago area (www.comed.com). I've checked, and it's not heavily subsidized. I purchased a Tesla Roadster to both reduce my oil use as well as to help fund Tesla Motors.
Let me build on what you posted. Assume you also put in a solid state hard drive. The power consumption would be extremely low, and you could use them in offices across the country with little need to admin a full Windows environment.
http://metaresearch.org/media%20and%20links/press/SOG-Kopeikin.asp
Abstract: New findings were announced on 2003/01/08 by S. Kopeikin, claiming to have measured the "speed of gravity" and finding it essentially equal to the speed of light. These findings are invalid by both experimental and theoretical standards because the quantity measured was already known to propagate at the speed of light. The hyped claims therefore do a disservice to science in general and the advancement of physics in particular because the announced findings do not represent the meaning of the actual experimental results and cannot possibly represent the physical quantity heretofore called "the speed of gravity", which has already been proved by six experiments to propagate much faster than light, perhaps billions of times faster. Several mainstream relativists have also stated their disagreement that the experiment really measured what it claimed to measure.Emphasis is mine. If you're interested, we can dig up more research on it, as it's a subject that interests me (anything that is faster then light is a cause for celebration).
Wouldn't that be a hoot? Discovering gravitational radiation using your new fangled communication device, which just obsoleted itself by discovering a new communications method (supposedly, if gravitational radiation could be used to send communications, the communication would be instantaneous due to the properties of gravity).
That's what UDP is for chief =) All joking aside, a whole new set of protocols are going to need to be created to deal with the inherent latency due to that good ol' speed o' light limitation.
Running this laser communications system at each DSN ground station, and taking advantage of the ground communications links already in place would be a boon considering the limited bandwidth currently available via radio-only communications systems.
To do: build a mindstorm exoskeleton that assists you in crushing small countries and chasing kids off your lawn
Running a separate circuit of high-voltage (200-600V) cabling in a matrix through datacenter walls should be standard practice if you're in a high-risk neighborhood (such as the one CI Host is at). Just make sure to let the fire captain at your local fire station know, and perhaps give them some sort of remote EPO capability.
Bullshit. I want one site to go to that handles all of my video rental needs. Netflix fulfills this, and for only $16 I might add. If I wanted a bunch of crap videos, I can go to YouTube any day.b
Yep, missed that. My bad for skimming.
You generate power from the He3 on the moon, and beam the power back. Microwave power transmission technology is already proven.
I have a big problem with fuel cells because of the need for a hydrogen infrastructure (which is never going to happen).
I think the problem of a person cutting a 700K volt transmission line in the middle of nowhere is self-solving.
You have fun trying to get hydrogen to fuel your "production fuel cell car." I, on the other hand, am going to take my 2008 Tesla Roadster (already have my production number) that I can charge anywhere and enjoy my low emission driving (in northern Illinois, all power provided is generated at nuclear power plants via ComEd). And yes, nuclear power is cleaner than coal generation. Google for it.