Category: energy
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Shai Agassi's Better Place project explained
In my post about the DLD conference yesterday I showed the video of Shai Agassi’s presentation because I thought it was an amazingly good idea, well explained. However, when I checked out Shai’s blog I found the following video of kids doing a far better job getting Shai’s idea across (sorry Shai!). It is a…
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DLD Conference Highlights
I spent the early part of this week in Munich for the DLD Conference in Munich. It was an amazing experience. The conference itself is a free invite-only event. The speaker list is unbelievable. The speakers included politicians, business people and convicted criminals! Apart from the usual tech rock stars (Clay Shirky, Marissa Mayer, Matt…
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CIX on Intruders.tv
We held our Open Day in CIX a couple of weeks back. We invited local businesses to come in and have a look at the data centre infrastructure before we closed up all the ducts and hazardous areas. We also invited Intruders.tv to come along and film the event. They did and they published the…
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Support the US Energy Bill
Chris Abraham emailed me overnight asking me to blog about the Energy Bill issue as discussed in http://www.energybill2007.org The Energy Bill is a US environmental focussed bill and the energybill2007.org site Chris links to, urges US politicians to: protect America’s energy, environmental, and economic security by ensuring that the final Energy Bill that goes to…
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Using Energy Demand Management to increase wind energy in Ireland
Wind energy currently contributes around 6.5% of the electricity generation in Ireland. The government has committed to increasing this to 33% by 2025. That is a good thing, right? Well yes, but it brings with it some problems which will have to be addressed before it can become a reality. In 2006 the minimum demand…