Green Internet and Cyber-infrastructure Overview

Governments around the world are wrestling with the challenge of how to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The current preferred approaches are to impose carbon taxes and implement various forms of cap and trade. However another approach to help reduce carbon emission is to “reward” those directly who reduce their carbon footprint and complement their existing lifestyle. One possible reward system is to provide homeowners with free fiber to the home or free wireless products and other electronic services such as ebooks and eMovies if they deploy micro renewable energy sources for their ICT equipment and use eVehicles for energy transportation. Not only does the consumer benefit, but this business model also provides new revenue opportunities for small businesses, network operators, and eCommerce application providers.

Linking renewable energy with the Internet using eVehicles and dynamic charging where vehicle's batteries are charged as it travels along the road, may provide for a whole new "energy Internet" infrastructure for linking small distributed renewable energy sources to users. For more details please see:

How North American suburban sprawl could be the answer to global warning: http://goo.gl/UDz37

Free High Speed Internet to the Home: http://goo.gl/wGjVG

High level architecture of Building Zero Carbon Networks: http://goo.gl/juWdH


Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Carbon Accounting and Green IT strategies for networks - TERENA workshop


[TERENA in partnership with SURFnet and GEANT is hosting a 2 day workshop on carbon accounting and Green IT strategies for R&E networks.
Lots of interesting topics and presentations.
At one time I thought carbon accounting would allow R&E networks tap into various cap and trade programs. But given the abject failure of most cap and trade initiatives I think carbon accounting will be best applied to Green or Energy Revolving Funds deployed by many universities and governments. The carbon and energy savings can be very significant especially when coupled with institutional strategies to outsource research and education computing to the cloud (assuming the cloud infrastructure uses renewable energy).—BSA]

http://www.terena.org/activities/green-workshop/ws2/programme.html

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