So I came across a couple of links today that might be interesting.
Here you can read about a Canadian program that lets people invest in bonds where the money is used to buy solar panels. These types of financing are pretty rare here, but it seems like they're increasingly popular elsewhere. The best part? A rate of return that gets you more than $200 more than you would if you invested in a crappy savings account these days.
Here you can read about how Disney Paris is instituting heat co-generation, where they use the heat generated by all their computers and servers to power nearby buildings. We just got done reading about this, and seems like a very creative (and, I gather, efficient) way of generating electricity. If more big businesses do things like this, we may be on to something.
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I would love to see Bloomington do a solar cooperative! Why not?
ReplyDeleteIn a LEED Gold project I worked on at Butler, their new Pharmacy School addition, they planned a large campus server in the basement. Waste heat from the server helps heat the building in winter and can be used for make-up heat in variable air volume boxes for humidity control in summer. This is an off-the-shelf solution, not rocket science. Heat is heat. We should endeavor to reuse it. Thanks for the quick hits! I love it!