100 percent clean, renewable energy in 10 years? Maybe not the most realistic goal, but you can't deny that it would create a cleantech boom of massive proportions...

Gore Calls for 100% Green Power in 10 Years - Earth2Tech

Al Gore has just called for an aggressive, if not unattainable, solution to America’s economic, environmental and national security woes: Generate 100 percent of our electricity from carbon-free sources within 10 years. The Nobel laureate laid out the challenge to America in a speech today at Washington’s Constitution Hall.

Time to green-light sustainable IT - Silicon.com

The current penchant for invoking green IT whenever data centre power consumption is mentioned may suit the goals of IT vendors with new power efficient kit to sell; but it does little to help address the bigger picture.

In fact, it only serves to perpetuate the misguided notion that IT is to be treated at arm's length as an isolated part of the business.

Sun Exec: Your ‘Eco Data Center’ doesn’t have to cost millions. - GreenTech Pastures, ZDNet

For the long term, match your infrastructure to the application SLA or SLO needs, whatever your service level model or service level objectives are. Don’t implement big Tier 3, Tier 3 Plus or Tier 4 data centers for all application workloads. Target it appropriately. A number of customers are starting to take a look at a single data center that is broken up into multiple rooms. Some of the rooms being Tier 1 Plus, some being Tier 2 and finally the other rooms being Tier 3 Plus. And [they’re] putting only the mission-critical equipment in the Tier 3 Plus areas and all testing, development, quality assurance, SAN box systems, staging and lifecycle management systems into the Tier 2. And then the Tier 1 can be kind of the playground for systems administrators to learn things or people to try out new virtualization technologies, etc.

Power Rationing--Green Gets Serious - InformationWeek's Storage Blog

Instant power savings can be achieved quickly in a few areas. First is data archiving, getting old data off of your arrays. Disk archiving is ideal for data that still needs to be accessed occasionally, meaning that disk is still needed, but can be moved from these active disk areas to systems like Copan's File Archiver and NexSAN's ATABeast, that can turn off the drives attached to it. The remaining active data set should be managed as well with data compression. Companies like Storwize can deploy an in-line compression technology to compress all of your active file system data, even network-mounted databases with no performance impact. With old data off the arrays and active data being compressed, file systems can be consolidated to fewer storage systems, and those arrays can be turned off.

Solar Power Array Installed at Fresno Yosemite International Airport - Treehugger

The fuel powering the planes flying into the Fresno Yosemite International (FYI) airport may not yet come from renewable energy, but a good portion of the operations of the airport will soon be, thanks to a new 2 MW solar array dedicated yesterday.

The array will provide electricity to power 40% of the everyday lighting, air conditioning, controls and tower communications of the airport. The array will by 9.5 acres in size and is expected to save the airport $13 million over the next 20 years.