Hello World coded by Dayton

Not sure if this is true or not, but Tuaw.com is reporting that Google has told their employees they can no longer install Windows on company computers, and they must choose Mac or Linux.

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/31/google-to-employees-mac-or-linux-but-no-more-windows

So, I read about the Bloom Energy Fuel Cell technology today and calculated some interesting numbers based on the data sheet on their website (link below).

The unit produces 100kW using 0.661MMBtu/hr of Natural Gas. Based on a conversion I got from Google, 10 therms is equal to 1.034MMBtu/hr, so 0.661MMBtu/hr is equal to 6.39 therms.

So to generate the following, you would need the corresponding amount of gas:
1kW – 0.0639 therms
1000kW – 63.9 therms
2500kW – 159.75 therms

If you can get Natural Gas at $1 a therm, that puts power from the Bloom Energy Server at 6.39 cents per kW not including the cost of the unit, which is 1.5 to 3x that of Nuclear, depending on where you get your numbers from.

Bloom Energy – http://www.bloomenergy.com/products/data-sheet/

Even with the bad weather, and the freezing temperatures, we had our first code camp in Columbia SC.  It was held at the Swearingen Engineering Building at USC.  We had over 200 people register, and over 140 showed up.  All in all, it was a big success, and we plan to have another one next year.  We are also thinking of organizing a SQL Saturday event later this year.

Some other code camp like events coming up in Columbia SC of this year are ConvergeSC and POSSCON.

Columbia Code Camp – http://www.columbiacodecamp.com/
Converge SC – http://convergesc.org/
POSSCON – http://posscon.org/