At a time when we can only see the cost of energy increasing, what used to be outside of the best interests of the largest stakeholders (i.e. the energy suppliers) is now inside the very keen interest of some of the new large players.

Investment in energy solutions can only be on the up and plans / ideas that might have been previously shelved in order to protect the profit margins of their creators may be dusted off to ensure future energy market positions.

I am reading about more sources of renewable / long lasting energy monthly, what is obviously needed is corporate levels of investment to make one a reality.

At the end of the day, some of the original insight to the network computer was just to reduce the overheads on the desk, of both power consumption and hardware costs.

This is something hopefully Cloud Computing can also harbour ambitions to achieve, by sharing processing power virtually.

Certainly the corporate market is now much focused on virtual solutions in order to reduce cost of both hardware and energy overheads. But, also to achieve the golden 99.99% up-time of services — imagine, no internet!

Our requirement and interest in power is greater than ever before, to find solutions to answer this demand has become the responsibility of some of the bigger consumers, lets hope with their weight behind projects progress may be a little quicker.