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17 commentsTuesday, September 9, 2008

Google Barges Into the Ocean

...Plans to At Least

Google's quest for global domination organization is taking a step further as it moves out into the ocean. Yes, Google intends to have a presence not only in outer space, but in the sea as well.

According to Ron Schenone at Lockergnome, the company wants to have barges built three to seven miles off shore , and in 50 to 70 meters of water. Why could they possibly want this? To house data centers of course. Where else are they going to hold the digital version of every newspaper in history?

It makes perfect sense that Google would expand into the sea. There's only so much room in outer space, which I assume they are saving for later (so far they're only sending satellites up; not settling on space stations as far as I know).Seriously though, they've filed a patent for the "Water-based data center". Data Center Knowledge explains:

The Google design incorporates the Pelamis Wave Energy Converter units, which use the motion of ocean surface waves to create electricity and can be combined to form "wave farms." The largest existing project uses seven Pelamis units to generate about 5 megawatts of power. Diagrams included with Google's patent application indicate the company plans to combine 40 or more Pelamis units to produce 40 megawatts of power.

The patent documents describe a cooling system based on sea-powered pumps and  seawater-to-freshwater heat exchangers.


It actually sounds really interesting and innovative, which would explain the patent-filing.  Once they get these things going, there will be plenty of room in the world's oceans for them to expand. Once the ocean's surfaces and the galaxy are thoroughly dominated by Google, there should still be plenty of room under water.

About the author:
Chris Crum has been a part of the WebProNews team and the iEntry Network of B2B Publications since 2003. Twitter: @CCrum237

Content is cool as well as your innovative idea

 

I like the innovative idea of putting a CAPTCHA instead of some complex image that has scrambled Text and sound to identify human visitor. It's really is simple and cool and it works as well.

about time

this idea has been waiting to happen since the mid seventies oil-crisis

see the work of prof stephen salter, edinburgh uk the grand-daddy of these systems - in the average metre of wavefront there is about 60 to 90 kW of energy just moving all that water about - the potential is huge for proper sustainable energy. forget wind turbines and nuclear, ocean power IS the future of our energy needs.

see also www.roughdiamondproductions.com/sound-artist

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