Renewable Energy
A major pillar of green web hosting is utilizing renewable energy instead of conventional, fossil fuel based energy. Servers consume vast amounts of energy both conventionally and kinetically by operating fans to cool them. In fact it is said that “By 2020 the web hosting industry will be as big of a polluter as the airline industry!”
Renewable energy is defined as any source of energy generated from natural sources which are naturally replaced. However using this definition – one might say that oil is a naturally occuring, naturally renewing source. So we append this definition with “Energy that is generated from natural sources that does not produce any significant amount of pollution through either production, generation or maintenance.”
Simply put, renewable energy is wind power, hydroelectric, photovoltaic (solar), biomass, geothermal or biofuel.
January 21, 2010
This is really one of the most interesting and most exciting thing. I like to read your watch. Anyways keep it up and keep continue with your valuable thoughts.
February 14, 2010
Well we can somewhat agree on what the future holds for us. Even now there are tons of web hosts available and I feel we might get to that point before even 2020. We’ll have to wait and see how it goes I guess.
February 20, 2010
European electricity companies will strive to achieve a carbon-neutral power supply by 2050, work for an integrated European electricity market that will deliver power cost-efficiently and reliably, and promote energy-efficient electricity applications as a key part of the solution to the great energy-climate challenge.