This story has almost nothing to do with with MNB’s normal portfolio...but it carried a headline that we simply could not ignore. The story comes from the San Jose Mercury News and is entitled:
Cow chips may power computer chips.
Here’s the basic story...
“Giving new meaning to the term "server farm," a team of Hewlett-Packard (HP) researchers has come up with a plan for combining cow chips and computer chips to build an environmentally friendly data center — powered by manure. In a paper set for release this week, HP scientists have proposed using a ‘biogas’ recovery system that would convert livestock waste into methane, to be used as fuel to generate electricity for data centers, those cutting-edge computer facilities that serve as the nerve centers for an increasingly Internet-dependent world.
“In turn, the system would use the heat produced by the banks of server computers - sometimes referred to as server farms - to assist the process of converting the animal waste into fuel.
“The result is what Chandrakant Patel, a scientist at HP Labs in Palo Alto, Calif., calls "a symbiotic relationship between manure and IT."
Cow chips may power computer chips.
Here’s the basic story...
“Giving new meaning to the term "server farm," a team of Hewlett-Packard (HP) researchers has come up with a plan for combining cow chips and computer chips to build an environmentally friendly data center — powered by manure. In a paper set for release this week, HP scientists have proposed using a ‘biogas’ recovery system that would convert livestock waste into methane, to be used as fuel to generate electricity for data centers, those cutting-edge computer facilities that serve as the nerve centers for an increasingly Internet-dependent world.
“In turn, the system would use the heat produced by the banks of server computers - sometimes referred to as server farms - to assist the process of converting the animal waste into fuel.
“The result is what Chandrakant Patel, a scientist at HP Labs in Palo Alto, Calif., calls "a symbiotic relationship between manure and IT."
- KC's View:
- "Nuff said.
