Environmental Design with the Device API · An A List Apart Article
http://alistapart.com/article/environmental-design-with-the-device-api
Battery Status and Network Information APIs
#javascript : est-que mon #mobile capte ? est-ce qu’il lui reste de l’énergie ?
The Past, Present and Future of Russian Energy Strategy | Stratfor
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/past-present-and-future-russian-energy-strategy
Comme @nidal, je précise ici que je ne suis pas nécessairement daccod avec les thèses développées ici, mais je référence pour avoir une archives et m’y référer pour le prochain papier (ou la prochaine carte). STratfor n’est pas une institution très fréquentable, mais bon.
The Past, Present and Future of Russian Energy Strategy
February 12, 2013
By Lauren Goodrich and Marc Lanthemann
The future of Russia’s ability to remain a global energy supplier and the strength the Russian energy sector gives the Kremlin are increasingly in question. After a decade of robust energy exports and revenues, Russia is cutting natural gas prices to Europe while revenue projections for its energy behemoth, Gazprom, are declining starting this year.
Smart, social energy : Can software change our energy habits ? | BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20173641
software to help people cut their energy use without having to spend too much time working out how to do it.
Firms including British Gas already offer software allowing consumers to monitor and control their central heating from afar.
The intention is to take this to the next level with a system that can analyse the energy use of every device in a home and suggest ways to use them more efficiently - or simply to replace them with better, cheaper-to-run equipment.
Saudi oil well dries up – Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100019812/saudi-oil-well-dries-up
From Heidy Rehman at Citi:
– Saudi Arabia Could be an Oil Importer by ~2030 — Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest oil producer (11.1mbpd) & exporter (7.7mbpd). It also consumes 25% of its production. Energy consumption per capita exceeds that of most industrial nations. Oil & its derivatives account for ~50% of Saudi’s electricity production, used mostly (>50%) for residential use. Peak power demand is growing by ~8%/yr. Our analysis shows that if nothing changes Saudi may have no available oil for export by 2030.
– It Already Consumes All Its Gas Production — Saudi Arabia produces 9.6bn ft3/day of natural gas. This is entirely consumed domestically. It is looking to raise gas production to 15.5bn ft3/day by 2015E, implying a 2011-15E CAGR of 12.7%. However, peak power demand is growing at almost 8% pa. We believe Saudi Arabia will need to find new sources to meet residential & industrial demand.
What It Takes to Power Google - Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38556
Google uses 260 million watts continuously across the globe, the company reported on Wednesday. This is equivalent to the power used by all the homes in Richmond, Virginia, or Irvine, California (around 200,000 homes), and roughly a quarter of the output of a standard nuclear power plant.
On est quand même loin de faire bouillir une tasse de thé à chaque requête, comme annoncé par des Cassandres il y a quelques années.
J’ai commis un article sur l’énergie et l’internet dans le dernier numéro de Ecorev’ (http://ecorev.org)
Earth Day Enemies: Greenpeace Slams Apple, Facebook, Google Data Centers
http://mashable.com/2011/04/22/cloud-computing-dirty-energy
Environmental activist organization Greenpeace emphasized the environmental effects of cloud computing this Earth Day, releasing a report that assigns grades to 10 prominent technology companies based on how they power data centers.
According to the report, computer servers in data centers account for about 2% of global energy demand and are growing their energy consumption at a rate of about 12% per year. About half of the companies studied, which include Google, Facebook and Apple, used coal to meet 50% to 80% of their energy needs instead of renewable energy resources like wind and solar.