[ale] Intelligent Power (was global warming) [OT]

[George Allen]

Still off topic but contains oblig. Linux ref.

Just remembered an idea I had... that's tangentailly related to global 
warming.

Say - as a spin-off to 'The Matrix,' to fulfill our renewable power needs... 
we used solar panels....

Say - layout a grid-array of solar panels over say... most of Nevada...
But they wouldn't just be panels.... There would be small gauge rail tracks 
also laid throughout the grid. A small army of semi-intelligent robots 
running 'clustered-robot-linux-single-system-image' with power and data 
through the rail system would travel up and down the tracks constantly 
cleaning, maintaining, and even building out more rail and panels. There 
could be squeege models to clean, engineers to build, maintenance, etc... 
Make everything modular so that the robots could pull and replace, and would 
get all their parts from supply depots staged at the edge of the array.

Sortof like those leaf cutter ants that harvest the fungus they grow, or those 
other ants that feed off the aphids... except these linux-ants would harvest 
power.

Wonder if you could pull it off technically, how feasable it would be - as far 
as power generated vs resources consumed?

-George

On Friday 29 February 2008 17:40:54 Jeff Lightner wrote:
> You're a proponent of Intelligent Cooling?  :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Matt
> Kubilus
> Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 4:44 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] global warming [OT]
>
> Entropy is a myth.
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> 2008/2/28 Jon Reagan <jreagan1990 at gmail.com>:
> > Thanks for the link; it's a good read!
> >
> > Jon
> >
> > 2008/2/28 Sean Kilpatrick <drifter at oppositelock.org>:
> > > I know this is off topic, but I thought some on this list
> > > might be interested in this article debunking some of the
> > > hysteria over global warming.
> > >
> > > http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/global-warming-01.html
> > >
> > > Sean
> > >
> > >
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