Comments on: Greening the Business and the Datacenter http://corp.sonic.net/ceo/2008/03/01/greening-the-business-and-the-datacenter/ Postings from Dane Jasper Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:23:51 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Rewinding power costs | Sonic.net CEO Blog http://corp.sonic.net/ceo/2008/03/01/greening-the-business-and-the-datacenter/comment-page-1/#comment-616 Rewinding power costs | Sonic.net CEO Blog Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:13:37 +0000 http://corp.sonic.net/blog/2008/03/01/greening-the-business-and-the-datacenter/#comment-616 [...] green datacenter cooling system has established a great track record since deployment. Our 2008 total utility costs [...] [...] green datacenter cooling system has established a great track record since deployment. Our 2008 total utility costs [...]

]]> By: Brad http://corp.sonic.net/ceo/2008/03/01/greening-the-business-and-the-datacenter/comment-page-1/#comment-292 Brad Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:50:07 +0000 http://corp.sonic.net/blog/2008/03/01/greening-the-business-and-the-datacenter/#comment-292 The new chiller plant sounds very exciting. I started googling "chiller plant" and started reading very practical information from LBL from engineers and professionals that mentioned many aspects of efficiency of chilling systems (with much data spanning many decades). What it makes us quickly realize (which you obviously found out) is that with bigger systems such as yours, having the right engineers on the project obviously has great benefit. I knew I had a disdain for what seemed to be a sort of prepackaged system that you installed before, but I didn't have the background to specifically come up with support for those feelings and/or alternatives. Reading about this makes me feel better that there are really real solutions from real engineers employed by companies set up to utilize them properly that are superior to the more canned installations from before. I really genuinely hope that your chiller is professionally done, and gives you the performance you expect. As an aside, I go to school across the street from Therma Corp (http://www.therma.com/), a pipe place (and with its own engineering, manufacturing, installation, maintenance, etc. departments, products and staff). How does that company compare to Bell Products of Napa? From my terse reading and very beginning understanding, my assumption is that with respect to the project you have, they are comparable, and that the main obvious benefit of BPoN is that they are closer to you and therefore are the right company for the job. The new chiller plant sounds very exciting. I started googling “chiller plant” and started reading very practical information from LBL from engineers and professionals that mentioned many aspects of efficiency of chilling systems (with much data spanning many decades). What it makes us quickly realize (which you obviously found out) is that with bigger systems such as yours, having the right engineers on the project obviously has great benefit.

I knew I had a disdain for what seemed to be a sort of prepackaged system that you installed before, but I didn’t have the background to specifically come up with support for those feelings and/or alternatives. Reading about this makes me feel better that there are really real solutions from real engineers employed by companies set up to utilize them properly that are superior to the more canned installations from before.

I really genuinely hope that your chiller is professionally done, and gives you the performance you expect.

As an aside, I go to school across the street from Therma Corp (http://www.therma.com/), a pipe place (and with its own engineering, manufacturing, installation, maintenance, etc. departments, products and staff). How does that company compare to Bell Products of Napa? From my terse reading and very beginning understanding, my assumption is that with respect to the project you have, they are comparable, and that the main obvious benefit of BPoN is that they are closer to you and therefore are the right company for the job.

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