Renewable Energy
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.
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!”
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.
August 3, 2010
The idea of renewable energy should have emerged quite a few years back when the lack of resources for energy was detected. Certainly other forms of energy is something we have to look for.
September 16, 2010
Make sure you investigate the cost of your solar panels and do a comparison of the life of the solar panel and the cost savings in electricity. This will let you know whether you should buy solar panels. We can help if necessary.
October 14, 2010
Burning hardwood briquettes and eco logs has proved time again to be a carbon neutral high efficiency wood fuel for wood burners. Easy to light and a very clean burning fuel. Biomass burneres are also useing this type of fuel in our modern times when we need to save energy.
October 26, 2010
Renewable Energy is the wave of the future. There is nothing more pressing today then finding renewable, clean energy sources.
November 4, 2010
Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable.
Nice to see this type of blogs, now days its very hard to get something for reading which really help people. Thanks , keep it up.
November 27, 2010
I think you’re dead on in worrying about pollution from webhosts. Think about how many computers a single major online site (google, amazon, etc.) needs to have operating, all at once, for their site to be active. That’s crazy.
December 7, 2010
Renewable energy sources are very precious and important interms of source of energy and also to protect our environment.To over come a big problem “Global Warming” we must have to shift from non renewable energy sources to renewable energy sources.They are available in huge quantity,constant supply can be possible,less polluted.
December 27, 2010
The more we use renewable energy, the more we benefit the environment, strengthen our energy security, create jobs locally, and help improve our economy.
January 9, 2011
Web hosting will pollute as much as the entire airline industry? I’d really be interested to hear where those statistics are coming from. I can imagine there might be some truth to it, but when you consider the kinds of pollution generated from electrical power plants versus the exhaust from a jet engine I’m not sure which we should be more concerned over.
February 23, 2011
Green web hosting can be best described as an eco-friendly alternative to traditional means of hosting. More companies are currently taking the initiative to minimize the impact data center emissions and other commonly used resources have on the environment.
March 27, 2011
I would like your rules! By the way, close to a new neighborhood for me is the “solar ready” homes for sale and I was doing a little research and find on your site. I think that having a home built in solar energy is a great way to avoid most of the costs of installation.
June 28, 2011
Companies all over the world have taken up the call to go green. Helping our environment is imperative if we are going to have it for our own future as well as generations to come. In an effort to help reduce carbon foot printing, web hosting companies have even joined in the fight.
August 22, 2011
This is an interesting thing and a good way that we can share to our environment. Let us Go Green to help our mother earth fight global warming. Let’s all be natural and live a green life.
September 22, 2011
Hopefully these guys really start to think about their environmentally friendly campaigns going ahead in the future. As more people become accustomed to eco-friendly practices, they are going to tend to favour companies who also employ the same tactics.
October 17, 2011
That airline statistic is definently food for thought I’d like to see what the figures are like and what sort of pollution it is to make a judgement. I think we’ll start to see similar to what we’ve seen in other industries is that companies will start to go green and use this as a marketing ploy to gain a competitive edge.