{"id":71,"date":"2007-11-28T09:14:27","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T14:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/a-gigabyte-of-power\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T19:02:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T00:02:13","slug":"a-gigabyte-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/a-gigabyte-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gigabyte of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was reading this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20071127\/ap_on_hi_te\/google_green_power_2\">article<\/a> today on Google&#8217;s initiative to expand the economics of alternative energy:<\/p>\n<p><big><strong>Google expands into alternative energy<\/strong><\/big><br \/>\n<span>MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I love this paragraph here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Toward that end, Google aims to produce one <strong>gigabyte<\/strong> of power from renewable energy at prices below the rates of electricity generated at coal-burning plants. One <strong>gigabyte<\/strong> power would be enough to supply the needs of a city the size of San Francisco.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not exactly sure what one &#8220;gigabyte&#8221; of power is, but if Google is using them, I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s a lot. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if it&#8217;s comparable to the power you can generate by tapping into a clock tower that&#8217;s about to be struck by <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088763\/\" title=\"1.21 Gigawatts!!!\">lightning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Semi-related is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyquistcapital.com\/2007\/11\/16\/googles-secret-10gbe-switch\/\" title=\"Nyquist Capital: Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Secret 10GbE Switch\">speculation<\/a> that Google is building their own 10Gbit optical switches.<\/p>\n<p>Guess they&#8217;ll combine their gigabytes of power with the gigabits of light. See: I knew lightning would be in there somewhere!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was reading this article today on Google&#8217;s initiative to expand the economics of alternative energy: Google expands into alternative energy MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/a-gigabyte-of-power\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Gigabyte of Power<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-soap-box","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}