On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

There's been some talk about independent power generation here lately, so I thought some of you would be interested in this:

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=731909...

New solar cells that are 5x more efficient than the current 6%.

I should point out that there are a LOT of resources on alternative power on the web. Don't rely on this list unless your interest is purely casual.

That's pretty good. Compare this with our biological friends: plants like sugarcane usually get around 4.5% efficiency with photosynthesis and a yield rate of 1/10th that. So, with the sun giving averaging us 100 watts per square meter 24 hours a day/365 days a year, we would get about 400 milliwatts of sugar per square meter...

So how many potato plants does it take to run a Debian Linux box on either technology?

-=Duane http://dattaway.org