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General => Off Topic => Topic started by: protomech on September 17, 2012, 12:13:09 PM

Title: Apple's North Carolina datacenter powered by solar
Post by: protomech on September 17, 2012, 12:13:09 PM

http://gigaom.com/cleantech/behold-apples-massive-solar-farm-from-the-sky-photos/ (http://gigaom.com/cleantech/behold-apples-massive-solar-farm-from-the-sky-photos/)

Apple is powering their east coast datacenter with a 20 MW sun-tracking solar farm on 100 acres of land. GigaOm reports that Apple is building a second 20 MW solar farm nearby. Engadget claims (http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/16/visualized-apples-20-megawatt-solar-farm/) "initial reports indicated that ... the solar farm would still only be supplying 60 percent of the sites requirements", with the other 40% coming from (http://gigaom.com/cleantech/a-geeks-road-trip-north-carolinas-data-center-cluster/) a biogas fuel cell plant. GigaOm claims this is the world's largest privately owned solar farm.

(http://gigaom2.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/still0913_00002-copy.jpg)

Title: Re: Apple's North Carolina datacenter powered by solar
Post by: Shinysideup on September 18, 2012, 12:00:32 AM

Impressive. Here's a 5mW, 25,000 panel install atop a water reservoir in San Francisco:

(http://www.recurrentenergy.com/sites/default/files/SFPUC-1.jpg)

I'd love to see these surrounded by Empulses at feeding time.