Tag Archives: energy conservation

America’s Energy Diet

August 23, 2010 – 10:34 pm

By Mike Mulvihill
We’re using less energy – seriously. No, it’s not that we’re using fewer barrels of oil or kilowatts of electricity as our population grows. But according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data, we’ve made tremendous progress in using energy more efficiently. In fact, Dr. Mark Perry’s blog post based on the EIA data concludes [...]

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Less Wasted Energy Would Beget a Better Energy Plan

May 25, 2010 – 1:02 am

By Mike Mulvihill

The art of debate has given way to the bully pulpit of the zealous. Red states versus blue states, FOX conservative demagogues versus liberal MSNBC whack jobs and environmentalists versus business. Regardless of the correctness of their premise, zealots have created most of the world’s most serious ills – outside of pandemics – [...]

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Facebook’s Five Power Plants

October 20, 2009 – 9:01 am

by Mike Mulvihill
Photo by Laban West.  Lightning over Muskogee Power Plant, Muskogee OK.
Last week the number of the week was 30,000  –  that’s how many servers support Facebook’s operations.  (No wonder, Facebook produces 25TB – yep, tera-bytes – of log data per day).  The numbers comes from Jeff Rothschild,  the vice president of technology at Facebook, [...]

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