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[killermonkey]

and then watch all the power plants explode with all the excess power. 

Incorrect. Power plants wouldn't explode due to loss of load, their motors would run free causing potential runaway motor (then explosion!). However, households account for a small percentage of total power usage. The main users are businesses and other sources which run large AC, Heating, Water Pumps, you name it. Although the collective power use by houses is large.

[Kratos]

The main users are businesses and other sources which run large AC, Heating, Water Pumps, you name it.

So this GES forum is owned by a large corporation, which runs AC's, heaters, useless eletricity, etc etc

Maybe you guys should migrate the web to a green hosting company like Hostgator. I use them, best webhosting i think.

[Enzo.Matrix]

Wind stops blowing and the server farm loses power..  brilliant!

[killermonkey]

green hosting company like Hostgator.

LOL. LOL. LOL.

I go to their website and it says "Powered by 130% Wind Energy". Are they joking? That eliminates their credibility pretty much right there.

Either way, the dirty secret to wind energy is you don't have your power connected to the wind turbines. The company that owns them simply connects to the grid and offers their power for sale. Meaning being a "green company" just means they pay the wind company for their power.

What happens when the wind stops blowing? Your power still runs!!?? DUH, thats because it's now being supplied by nuclear, coal, whatever. The wind company you paid is now paying the other companies to supplement for their fail. Fucking green my ass.

[Enzo.Matrix]

Also wind turbines are oil hungry

[JcFerggy]

I participated. They turned off all the lights, and some ass turned off the wifi internet, so our homework group had to stop. Then we decided to get drunk in the dark and it was all fun after that. We didn't finish our work though :/

[Kratos]

I participated. They turned off all the lights, and some ass turned off the wifi internet,

I know why, someone saw lights on the router and thought hmmmm let me turn those off to save power...

Dumbass whoever it was.

[Cyan]

I go to their website and it says "Powered by 130% Wind Energy". Are they joking?

Ahhh! How can you ever have more than 100% of you power come from any source?

[Rodney 1.666]

Also wind turbines are oil hungry

Thirsty, I would say.

[Wake[of]theBunT]

Nah oil is manly food

The wind company you paid is now paying the other companies to supplement for their fail. Fucking green my ass.

Yeah when I do a rotten shit my ass is more green than most the green movement. Like greenpeace having diesel powered boats in the ocean to protest oil drilling.

[Goldenzen]

CLIMATEGATE - nuff said

[Kujo]

As for the holiday, maybe they should change it completely and do like take off the bandwidth cap on my ISP for 1 hour or maybe more, so I can have more upload speed and shit.

If your ISP turned off their per user bandwidth cap, EVERYONE would be "clogging the tubes" and your ISP would be effectively useless, dropping packets left and right, until the cap was re-enabled.  Trust me, those caps are there for a reason.

[killermonkey]

Wtf are bandwidth caps?

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html

HEHE

[Kujo]

Well, ok... That is kind of what I meant by "clogging the tube".  If you tube is the size of a medium sized state, theres no way in hell you can saturate it.

But any NORMAL user will have a very small "tube" (aka Comcast, DSL, etc) and is easily saturated.

Side note: It's interesting that you brought up Gooble Fiber, KM.  I am currently attending school in Peoria, IL and they had a pretty big campaign to try and bring said Fiber network to Peoria.  I hope we get it, as the GE:S dedicated server market would be one of the first areas to improve with with that kind of network at my disposal

http://www.googleplaysinpeoria.com/