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Comment Re:This may seem obvious to some, but... (Score 1) 365

by LostAlaska on Friday July 24, 2009 @04:56PM (#28812631) Attached to: Google Wave Reviewed

Perhaps all they meant was that Google has a crack team of scientists working on the project, and that got mangled into a group of crackhead scientists working on the project. Just a thought.

Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC 287

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 18, 2008 @05:03PM from the googly-attrition dept.

Ted Samson IW writes "InfoWorld reports on an experiment in air economization, aka 'free cooling,' conducted by Intel. For 10 months, the chipmaker had 500 production servers, working at 90 percent utilization, cooled almost exclusively by outside air at a facility in New Mexico. Only when the temperature exceeded 90 degrees Fahrenheit did they crank on some artificial air conditioning. Intel did very little to address air-born contaminants and dust, and nothing at all to deal with fluctuating humidity. The result: a slightly higher failure rate — around 0.6 percent more — among the air-cooled servers compared to those in the company's main datacenter — and a potential savings of $2.87 million per year in a 10MW datacenter using free cooling over traditional cooling."

XBMC 'Atlantis' Beta 1 Released, Now Cross-Platform 169

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 18, 2008 @03:31PM from the let-a-thousand-flowers-bloom dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a welcome followup to last year's promise of XBMC being made available for Linux: "The first cross-platform Beta version[s] of XBMC Media Center for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and Xbox have now been released in preparation for an upcoming stable release, code named 'Atlantis.'" Now, though, there are binaries available for download through the XBMC Media Center site, though only for the non-Xbox versions.

7th-Grader Designs Three Dimensional Solar Cell 719

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 18, 2008 @01:54PM from the lucky-guess dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "12-year-old William Yuan's invention of a highly-efficient, three-dimensional nanotube solar cell for visible and ultraviolet light has won him an award and a $25,000 scholarship from the Davidson Institute for Talent Development. 'Current solar cells are flat and can only absorb visible light'" Yuan said. 'I came up with an innovative solar cell that absorbs both visible and UV light. My project focused on finding the optimum solar cell to further increase the light absorption and efficiency and design a nanotube for light-electricity conversion efficiency.' Solar panels with his 3D cells would provide 500 times more light absorption than commercially-available solar cells and nine times more than cutting-edge 3D solar cells. 'My next step is to talk to manufacturers to see if they will build a working prototype,' Yuan said. "If the design works in a real test stage, I want to find a company to manufacture and market it.""

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