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User Since: November 23, 2009

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In reading the tea leaves of bloom energy - by Doug Mohney :
On 4/28/10 judgecorp said:
"Or, is it possible that the whole thing simply doesn't work as well as they claim?

Rupert Goodwins at ZDNet thinks this all smells.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/mixed-signals-10000051/bloom-energy-more-noise-than-sense-10015230/

What Bloom does is not a revolutionary technology, but a drastic reduction in the price of something well-understood, using top-secret methods.

In Rupert's experience (and mine) when someone promises orders of magnitude improvements, provided by means that are "too secret to reveal", and offered in prototypes that are carefully protected from actual investigation, what you very often have is a level of "optimism" close to fraud.

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In Greenpeace's latest data center drive-by shooting - by doug mohney :
On 4/9/10 judgecorp said:
"Nice post Doug.

I still think there's a place for Greenpeace's whistleblowing, and as an SEO-chasing journalist, I have some sympathy with their throwing in the iPad for more clicks. I reckon that Greenpeace - shcik! - using a data center, actually *isn't* as bad as finding animal rights people eating meat.

I think we mentioned that aspect of the campaign in our write up here http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/greenpeace-targets-ipad-in-war-on-dirty-tech-6183
though I'd have to admit, we did make sure the iPad name was up there to get readers.

But then, I eat meat *and* use data centres, so I'm not one to talk. :-)

Peter

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In The Trade off between reliability and efficiency - by Peter Judge :
On 1/19/10 judgecorp said:
"I'm mot sure Uptime "measures" reliability, as that's scientifically difficult - watch the center for a thousand years and measure how much downtime it has? - it's more assessing the reliability according to specific best practices.

Efficiency is easier to measure, and they didn't say how that will be measured. "
In Dummies for Green IT --By Doug Mohney :
On 11/23/09 judgecorp said:
"Thanks for an interesting link. Electronic copies probably are more green, especially on shipping costs, but they are a lot less readable.

I see that Green IT for Dummies - by a team including analyst Carol Baroudi of the Aberdeen Group - is available in the UK from <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Dummies-Carol-Baroudi/dp/0470386886/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258966320&sr=8-1">Amazon</a>.

Another book worth looking for - which has a free electronic version - is <a href="http://www.withouthotair.com/">"Without Hot Air"</a> by Daivd McKay. It's just on green energy, not IT, but puts things into context better than anything else I've seen.

By the way, this is not the only Green IT for Dummies on the planet. Hewlett-Packard produced one, with the Wiley "Dummies" packaging, which is available free <a href="http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/productdesign/greenit4dummies.html">here</a>. The HP version is only 30 pages long, with content produced by David Tebbutt and other analysts from Freeform Dynamics.

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