Comments on The Liberty Cafe: A world of free energy

We operate a data center facility in Toronto Canad...

2010-01-07T16:05:49.442-05:00

We operate a data center facility in Toronto Canada. The facility is designed for toronto Coloction. (For those of you how don't know what a data center is, basically is a large computer room, filled with hundreds / thousands of servers).

99.9% of all Data Center facilities around the world do very little in terms of free energy.

Our facility, has been optimized. We get at least 6 months of cold weather. So, in order to help reduce our carbon footprint, and reduce our electrical load on the power grid, we turned to Free Cooling.

We have so many systems that take advantage of this cold climate. The largest and most evident system is that our Chillers that cool down the water(glycol) that is used for the air conditioners basically are shut down for almost 80% of the time now.

We introduce large outdoor cooling grids of pipes that basically expose the pipes to the cold climate, and thus through the heat transfer of the metal pipes, the warm / hot water in the pipes gets cooled down, and returns back into the loop.

The chillers that would normally cool the water in hot climate temperature are basically non utilized now because of the cold ambient weather.

This is just one example of what we have done to take advantage of Free Cooling, and helping save the world with utilization of Free Energy.

to read more about this, visit us at www.datacenterscanada.com under the facilities section.

Paul @ Data Centers Canada
Toronto Colocation Facilities

Well of course my post was insulting because it wa...

2009-11-02T10:20:37.872-05:00

Well of course my post was insulting because it was meant to be because it was based on the truth. Something which you obviously do not like.

If you don't thing enviro-whackos are not getting in the way with all this "free" energy then you need to take trips to PA, MA, VT, TX, CA, WA and other states where wind farms and solar farms have been proposed but blocked or limited.

You should stop FEELING insulted and actually get mad at those who are in the way of building such alternative sources. I am sure T Boone Pickens would welcome your support for wind power.

You see, Mr. Pickens cant get his wind farms built either. Although it is mostly government that is getting in his way this time, but that government is supported by enviro-whackos.

I have been a huge advocate of alternative energy. But every where I look it seems some environmental group is blocking, forcing a scale back or in some other way hindering the progress of such sources. Save an owl and a tree to save a sea gull to save a lizard, all have prevented alternative power generating sources from being built.

Maybe you should stop and think before you comment. But thanks for reading.

This post is difficult to respond to because you'r...

2009-10-30T19:56:37.707-04:00

This post is difficult to respond to because you're insulting, yet we agree on the sources of energy that should be used.

Wind, solar and geothermal are exactly the types of energy "environmentalists" want, support and are trying to get our government to invest in. The United States is by far the slowest industrialized country in the world to move to clean energy sources.

Many, many other countries across the world ARE using these types of energy. Heck, if you go to Germany you can visit entire cities that are running off of 100% clean, renewable energy, mainly wind and solar. Every building has solar panels on them. It is pretty amazing.

You clearly dislike "liberals and democrats," but you completely agree with us on the types of energy we should be moving to, not just for the United States, but globally.

I am happy to see, even though you insulted democrats a number of times in your post, that you at least have the right ideas, even on why nuclear is probably a bad idea, as I, and many other democrats have.

As far as the "cap and taxing" stuff, that's not really the preferred way to change to clean energy, however, it does have some benefits. Ideally, the cap is put in place, which will stimulate competition between businesses. Utility rates should not sky rocket because of allowances for utility companies, however, as there is no official legislation out yet, it's hard to say what will or will not happen.

I also find it strange you're saying that proof keeps coming out that disproves climate change is real and man made, whereas, everything I see and read, from reliable sources, even from Non-partisan sources, show that it is completely real, it's getting worse and is already affecting us now.

Anyway, before you throw out a barrel of insults, I would suggest, maybe, making sure you don't actually have pretty much exactly the same perspective on the topic as those you are insulting. :)