Solar power output at the Googleplex
By William M. Hartnett on Jun 18, 2007 in geekery
I don’t know why I find this so fascinating, but this page about Google’s solar panel project shows how much power the thousands of panels on the roof of the company’s headquarters have produced in the past 24 hours. (Currently enough for 56,525 hours of flat-screen TV viewing, which seems right up my alley.) Now if I could just persuade my own coworkers to turn off their computers at night.
(Via the Official Google Blog)
Will | Jun 18, 2007 | Reply
Was that you in Ask JB?
Either way, right on.
William M. Hartnett | Jun 19, 2007 | Reply
The first time, yeah. I suspect the subsequent pleas for power-use sanity came from my cubicle neighbor, who is walking the enviro-walk so hard these days that she’s started reclaiming the greywater from her shower in a pair of backyard cisterns. That’s hardcore. All I do is turn off my computer at night and tut loudly every time I see a Hummer.