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| System Name | Party On |
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| Processor | Xeon w 3520 |
| Motherboard | DFI Lanparty |
| Cooling | Big tower thing |
| Memory | 6 gb Ballistix Tracer |
| Video Card(s) | HD 7970 |
| Case | a plank of wood |
| Audio Device(s) | seperate amp and 6 big speakers |
| Power Supply | Corsair |
| Mouse | cheap |
| Keyboard | under going restoration |
A recent patent describes a vehicle-based ‘windmill’ system with a range of rotors and rotating blades on its wing, capable of generating enough power to run and cool down the massive servers.
The tech giant suggests putting these flying turbines on their 'ocean-going vessels' with an electrically conductive tether, which would produce power while flying and propel the ship through the water.
The patent. was filed in May 2016 and is named ‘Airborne rigid kite with on-board power plant for ship propulsion'.
It also lists three inventors who are kite engineers with the firm Makani Power, which was acquired by Google X in 2013.
Makani Power stated that the ‘energy kite’ has the potential to generate 50 per cent more energy while eliminating 90 per cent of the materials used and for half the cost of conventional wind turbine.
Now, it appears Google X is putting the technology to good use and combining it with their vision of floating data centers, which Google patented in 2009.
The document describes an environmentally-friendly sea-powered telecommunications and storage system that looks much like the vessels that have appears on both side of the continent.
'A system includes a floating platform-mounted computer data center comprising a plurality of computing units, a sea-based electrical generator in electrical connection with the plurality of computing units, and one or more sea-water cooling units for providing cooling to the plurality of computing units,' Google wrote in the patent
The patent explains that an AWT includes a rigid wing with mounted turbines, which flies between 250 and 600 meters in the air – or in this case, over water.
This system is then linked to a ground station on the ship via an electrically conductive tether that gathers the energy produced by the device, which ‘may then be used for propulsive or auxiliary purposes’.
During launch, the aerial vehicle may operate in a hover mode, with the fuselage generally perpendicular to the grounds, the rotors may operate in thrust generating mode,’ according to the patent.
‘In some embodiments, the power to rotate the turbine blades in the thrust generating mode is provided through the electrically conductive tether from the ground station, and in other embodiments the power to rotate the turbine blades is supplied from power stored on the aerial vehicle.’
Google continues to explain that this system ‘may lead to significant fuel savings and reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.
The tech giant suggests putting these flying turbines on their 'ocean-going vessels' with an electrically conductive tether, which would produce power while flying and propel the ship through the water.
The patent. was filed in May 2016 and is named ‘Airborne rigid kite with on-board power plant for ship propulsion'.
It also lists three inventors who are kite engineers with the firm Makani Power, which was acquired by Google X in 2013.
Makani Power stated that the ‘energy kite’ has the potential to generate 50 per cent more energy while eliminating 90 per cent of the materials used and for half the cost of conventional wind turbine.
Now, it appears Google X is putting the technology to good use and combining it with their vision of floating data centers, which Google patented in 2009.
The document describes an environmentally-friendly sea-powered telecommunications and storage system that looks much like the vessels that have appears on both side of the continent.
'A system includes a floating platform-mounted computer data center comprising a plurality of computing units, a sea-based electrical generator in electrical connection with the plurality of computing units, and one or more sea-water cooling units for providing cooling to the plurality of computing units,' Google wrote in the patent
The patent explains that an AWT includes a rigid wing with mounted turbines, which flies between 250 and 600 meters in the air – or in this case, over water.
This system is then linked to a ground station on the ship via an electrically conductive tether that gathers the energy produced by the device, which ‘may then be used for propulsive or auxiliary purposes’.
During launch, the aerial vehicle may operate in a hover mode, with the fuselage generally perpendicular to the grounds, the rotors may operate in thrust generating mode,’ according to the patent.
‘In some embodiments, the power to rotate the turbine blades in the thrust generating mode is provided through the electrically conductive tether from the ground station, and in other embodiments the power to rotate the turbine blades is supplied from power stored on the aerial vehicle.’
Google continues to explain that this system ‘may lead to significant fuel savings and reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.
