Cloud Computing - Market Characteristic Must First be defined

referring to Ed Sperling's Cloud Computing Heads South of the Borders Forbes 2010 02 15

In 1980, Solvere witnessed at MIT the Athena Project. This project moved from Mainframe, Mini towards distributed computing on networked CPUs.

Some experience i need to share.

We have to understand what is the operations requirements we are addressing.

For Banks, unless they are doing complex modeling of derivatives, that is CPU intense. But today, we know this modeling led to collapse of financial market, so is there CPU intense work anymore for banks who want to be successful?

That remain with transaction based computing. This demands massive data handling, and low on CPU usage.

In this case, network speed, communication is of supreme consideration.

Is cloud computing advantageous in data intensive operations?
Today, data storage come in more than we need at affordable price, also we do see computer sending results over network than sending raw data over for computation.

Today, is 25 years after Athena project.

Biofuel is Not Bio-diesel, Bioethanol

It is wrongly understood by energy expert that biofuel is biotehanol, Bio-diesel.

Volatile like ethanol, diesel are needed, because of the rapid explosion demanded by Internal Combustion engines (ICEs).

1. ICE needs high purity, highly combustible liquid, gas.
ICE is highly complex, heavy, exploding instead of burning, resulting in high temperature, that even nitrogen also oxidize into pollutants, that need catalytic converter to break them down.
ICE must be replaced.

2. Volatile biofuel is fermenting sugar, celluloid into volatiles e.g. diesel, alcohols.
It uses only small part of bio produce while throwing away massive waste which are carbon rich, and generated a lot of carbon dioxide during the fermentation process. Even pure sugar, C12H22O11, when it converted to ethanol, C2H5OH, half of the 12 carbon is oxidize to CO2 during the fermentation process.

This is costly, unproductive.(the energy produced may be equal to the fuel, fertilizer, put into them, what about irrigation, labor.....)

This was highlighted in Singapore by Solvere to MIT Energy Team led by MIT President Susan Hockfield on Jan 22, 2009 in Singapore, 2 Days after Obama inauguration. The team concurred, but MIT need to keep the world informed and avoid major mistakes, costing not just the mother earth, but every penny, every drop of water, every grain of our food.

Solutions:

With rapid advancement of motors, generators, low voltage applications, we need not use ICE anymore. We can use turbo-electric generators for heavy duty, long distance transportation. With Turbo- we can burn low grade bio-waste directly, even without boilers.

Micro-turbine, as proposed by MIT Epstein is possible, if we use an Invention "Direct Thermal Transport" DTT to form high speed, high directional cyclone combustion to burn at lower temperature(no Nitrogen Pollution), even wet municipal waste(cyclone will dry up and prepare these for final combustion), to drive turbine directly (high speed, high directional exhaust) may not need steam boiler.

Posted on Comments to Report on Forbes
Building A Better Biofuel Bug
Jonathan Fahey, 02.11.10, 07:30 PM EST
Scientists have engineered a new bacteria strain that spits out biodiesel.

http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/11/biodiesel-engineering-microbe-technology-ecotech-biofuels.html?partner=technology_newsletter#readerComments

Ask What you can Invent and Sell to China

2010 February 3 responding to Forbes article by Shang-Jin Wei
Why Do The Chinese Save So Much?

This is indeed a paper full of flaws, fundamental flaws.
If China does not practice one child policy, which nation in history can afford to feed all of them, provide them with education, shelters, sanitation?
Tell me which nation do not have shanty town? How many you find in China?
Tell me how many homeless, orphants left on the streets, in major cities around the world? How are they compared with China?
This article is meaningless as it does not address the highest priority of any nation's policy making, macroscopically.
Microscopically, this article is a statistical analysis without fulfilling the critical requirements – cause and effect (causality). Without establishing there is real cause and effect, using statistic to derivate a predetermined or self-conceived relationship, any human can do, this is meaningless, useless, even destructive.
It is like measuring the timing of pendulum swing against sex ratio in the classroom.

To balance the trade, that is the core, root of all criticism against China, America must innovate new industries, products to sell to the world like what Intel, Microsoft, Communications did.

Ask not how others must not save,
Ask what can you invention, sell to others what others cannot make.
Americans are great innovators, go for it.

Solvere SM(MIT) MBA(Law)