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Do It Yourself Solar

Do It Yourself Solar

http://www.solardiy.info

This site is dedicated to the "Do It Yourself" aspect of solar energy. Currently I am focusing on the construction of my passive solar heated cabin, but there are many resources available for anyone looking to take on a solar energy project.

Recent Posts

  • Datacenter Efficiency: What is Green?

    Posted on Monday July 7th, 2008 at 16:51 in green data center

    Here is an article from Microsoft titled “Building a Green Datacenter” dealing with Energy monitoring systems, Essential traits of a green datacenter, Effects of H.R. 5646, and the Best practices for getting started. What I found more int...

  • Low Power Usage Western Digital Hard Drives

    Posted on Thursday March 27th, 2008 at 11:10

    While reading Slashdot today, I found that one of the major Hard Drive manufacturers is finally stepping up to the plate and offering “low power consumption” hard drives. Here is the HotHardware.com article on the WD Caviar and RE2 GreenP...

  • More Equipment Power Usage Data

    Posted on Tuesday March 25th, 2008 at 11:31

    Here is some more equipment power usage data for you… Sun Netra T1/105: 1 * 440mhz SPARC64 512MB RAM 1 * 18GB Seagate ST318405LC State Amps(max) Amps(avg) Watts(max) Watts(avg) LOM 0.07 0.07 3 3 Booting 0.78 0.55 66 63 Idle 0.55 0.52 ...

  • Processor Manufacturers Ramping Up “Low Power” CPU’s

    Posted on Sunday March 16th, 2008 at 07:59

    Recently, CPU Manufacturers seem to be getting the hint that we  want fast, efficient hardware, rather than the bloated “Coal Fired Servers” (Thanks for that one, Andrew!) we are used to. Intel announced “Sossaman” on Tuesday...

  • Dell Workstation Power Usage

    Posted on Sunday March 16th, 2008 at 07:37

    I’ve had a chance to run the Kill-A-Watt on a few of the Dell workstations we have at work. The numbers are interesting. The Dell Optiplex GX150 had a peak during bootup of .63Amps (~69Watts). I collected some data while the box was booting (in...

  • Arstechnica Low Power System Building Guide

    Posted on Thursday March 6th, 2008 at 08:16

    Arstechnica has a good guide on building low power systems  They go very in depth into every aspect of building a more efficient system. Mostly geared towards gaming but also good server info in there. I’ll come back and expand on this some mo...

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