Adam Chlipala wrote: > Nathan Kennedy wrote: > > >> The immediate action I want to take is to have HCoop buy wind energy >> credits from NativeEnergy to offset its electricity consumption at >> Peer1. >> >> > I guess the thing I haven't understood yet is this: Does the > organization we would pay for these credits somehow have "write access" > to the same electrical grid path that is feeding our servers, or is this > a more abstract act? I know when I originally joined the cooperative and brought up this idea, carbon credits and offsetting were a novel idea to the general populace, but I thought that awareness of the concept had increased. NativeEnergy has a number of projects, most of their wind farm activity is in the Midwest, so no, it is unlikely that very many electrons from their turbines will pass through our servers. This doesn't matter though, because greenhouse gasses are a global problem, not a local problem. The important thing is that these certificates are backed by a number of contracts and certified by Green-e, the #1 organization that does this sort of thing in North America, as displacing the face value number of KW/h of dirty electrical power on the grid with renewables. If we could buy wind power directly we'd have no need for certificates.
The particular certificates I recommended, NativeEnergy CoolWatts, is invested in construction of new wind turbine projects, in particular projects on tribal lands in South Dakota. But the way the certificates work, the carbon offsetting is not dependent on the success of any one project. -ntk _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
