Neutrino Energy Group aims to power the future's internet consumption
The recent COVID-19 panic has pushed the world's data infrastructure beyond reasonable limits
As an increasing number of students and employees accomplish daily tasks from home, this additional internet usage has combined with gaming and streaming needs to bring about the most significant IT energy crisis of modern times. While it's easy to forget, keeping websites like Google, Facebook, and Netflix online requires an incredible amount of electrical energy, and the Neutrino Energy Group proposes that neutrino-derived electricity could be used to push server technology away from fossil fuels and toward true sustainability.
Does IT Electrical Demand Damn Sustainable Energy to Fringe Applications?
According to IT writer Mark Mills, the recent global lockdown clearly illustrates how our digital energy use is directly tied to future economic health. While gasoline consumption went down nearly 30 percent during the first week of lockdown in the United States, for instance, overall electrical consumption only decreased by seven percent. These figures actually indicate increased overall energy use across all sources, demonstrating how our ability to fuel online interactions will determine the viability of global technological society over the next few decades.
At present, fossil fuels are the only energy technology capable of sustaining our combined internet needs. While existing renewable energy technologies can take some of the burden away from oil and coal, making a complete switch to renewables at this stage would cause the internet to collapse around the world.
According to Mills, it is still "prohibitively expensive" to produce reliable energy from solar and wind farms since these energy technologies depend on specific environmental conditions to operate. What this seasoned tech author fails to point out, however, is the significant decrease in voltage that occurs when electricity is transported from sustainable energy farms to the server banks that operate the global cloud.
On-Site Renewable Energy Generation Is Required
