Re: [gaia] Fun reading - a meat-lover or vegetarian better future Internet...? :)

[Arjuna Sathiaseelan <[e-mail]>]

this is really cool!
https://www.qarnot.com/qrad/

regards

On 15 December 2016 at 22:27, Arjuna Sathiaseelan
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> You should be looking at Jussi's Hybrid Renewable Energy Routing for ISP
> Networks (this year at Infocom paper) - where packets are forwarded through
> routers that have the highest renewable energy resource..
>
> but we can take this further -
>
> if you can shift computation around to devices where there is higher
> renewable energy resource - look at the weather and if its sunny with a
> certain temp - migrate the computation...
>
> interestingly most developing regions/emerging economies enjoy rather hot
> weather and have good renewable energy source - and if there are micro data
> centers or community cloud infrastructures - major service providers could
> offload computation there..ofcourse there are data regulations ;)
>
>
> if you want to be further adventurous and be a bit more insane we can
> proactively push computation around in communities based on energy from
> human poop (biogas) and how we can probably tie data on the food ordered
> online or in the fridge and predict how communities are going to poop and
> then proactively move computation around to use the bioenergy :)
>
> Btw - I still wonder why no one has yet thought of building a data center in
> the moon to offload non real-time computation!
>
> Regards
>
> On 15 December 2016 at 18:30, William Liu <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> Thanks Laban, this is an efficient imagine J
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>> Ha…it triggers me another think: now it is summer of New Zealand, a party
>> season of BBQing…while we use gas most, not sure if possible to be replaced
>> with more renewable things such as solar/energy harvesting ways, my first
>> question is (i) are they powerful and reliable enough to cook the food
>> include veges and meat…? ;-)
>>
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>> Then an extended question is that, (ii) are they ‘hot’ enough to ‘cook’
>> our interested ‘bits and bytes’…? In other words, are those renewable energy
>> sources sufficient to power communications system such as routers or base
>> stations…? GAIA needs to ‘eat’ electricity, a must…?  (iii) does the Global
>> Access Electricity/Energy for All (GAEA) need to be an prerequisite for
>> GAIA’s survival...?  then (iv) can we enable GAIA without GAEA or as less as
>> possible of GAEA…or say a ‘vegetarian’ Internet…? ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>> The traditional printed medium such as books and newspapers, no need
>> ‘electricity’ to read&learn…(v): can we have a printable (the key thing here
>> is no need electricity to keep it readable) but also dynamic of content
>> changeable and connect with others (might a DTN way?) Internet …? Is this a
>> self-contradictory question? ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>> Ha…this makes me feel ‘hungry’ for some energy knowledge and data in New
>> Zealand*, just start tasting them….also feel a Good Wish just growing that
>> to invite your GAIAers’ party (i.e., workshop/conference) coming to New
>> Zealand or more specific say Auckland where my university is located one day
>> so help imaging a vegetarian GAIA together…? In the challenged environment
>> such as rural and developing regions… this might useful to enable GAIA out
>> of electricity food constraints as much as possible so as to grow/live as
>> faster/longer as possible…(vi) is this make sense for those GAIA
>> practitioners and with any experience to share here, please? J
>>
>>
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>> Cheers Will from cloudy Auckland
>>
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>> *Note: ha…eating the following ‘grass’ now J
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_New_Zealand
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>> http://www.mbie.govt.nz/info-services/sectors-industries/energy/energy-data-modelling/publications/energy-in-new-zealand
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>> From: Laban Mwangi [mailto:[e-mail]]
>> Sent: Sunday, 11 December 2016 3:26 AM
>> To: Arjuna Sathiaseelan <[e-mail]>
>> Cc: gaia <[e-mail]>; William Liu <[e-mail]>; Theophilus
>> Benson <[e-mail]>
>> Subject: Re: [gaia] Fun reading :)
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>> Or perhaps it's simpler.. someone put up a platform for drying slippers...
>> Oh! What do you know, it's pretty hot too!
>>
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>> On 9 Dec 2016 23:34, "Arjuna Sathiaseelan"
>> <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> A picture is worth a thousand words :)
>>
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>> so you can interpret the pic in many ways..
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>> the actual fact is someone has put their slippers on the solar cell that
>> was powering a water quality sensor - probably thinking the solar cell
>> attracts more sun light :)
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>> or if I am optimistic -
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>> someone is designing a next generation energy harvesting slipper that is
>> capable of transferring energy from the solar cell to another source - the
>> DTN way :)
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>> On 9 December 2016 at 13:55, William Liu <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> Hey, what is that Thing: sounds a slipper on the solar panel (?), just
>> beside a pool…? Can you ‘decrypt’ IT..? ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers Will@Auckland
>>
>>
>>
>> From: gaia [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Arjuna Sathiaseelan
>> Sent: Saturday, 10 December 2016 2:15 AM
>> To: Theophilus Benson <[e-mail]>
>> Cc: gaia <[e-mail]>
>> Subject: Re: [gaia] Fun reading :)
>>
>>
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>> anything is possible in a developing region -
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>> an IoT example in Thailand - pic taken during my recent visit ;)
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>> https://goo.gl/photos/SsDTsMbFp5ZmCE3u6
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>> regards
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>> On 9 December 2016 at 12:28, Theophilus Benson <[e-mail]>
>> wrote:
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>> Insane reporting … or amazing sales skills :)
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>> On Dec 9, 2016, at 7:11 AM, Arjuna Sathiaseelan
>> <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> insane reporting :)
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