<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bab6d692-804e-49e4-b068-3116199212dd/FA4E7CDA-9F57-48AE-BFD3-90C52B0C3868/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/lisa_margonelli/2009/07/free_vs_peak_oil.php" href="http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/lisa_margonelli/2009/07/free_vs_peak_oil.php" style="font-size: 11px;">correspondents.theatlantic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/lisa_margonelli/2009/07/free_vs_peak_oil.php"> Between 2000 and 2005 according to this <A href="http://enterprise.amd.com/Downloads/svrpwrusecompletefinal.pdf">pdf report by Jonathan Koomey</A>, the amount of electricity used by servers alone doubled to account for 14 power plants world wide and $7.2 billion dollars. Is there some tension between free ideas and limited energy and natural resources?  Are free ideas and Peak Oil compatible?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/lisa_margonelli/2009/07/free_vs_peak_oil.php"> But I have one basic reaction to the concept of "free" ideas, and that is that probably, somebody, somewhere is paying.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/lisa_margonelli/2009/07/free_vs_peak_oil.php">Free may be another name for a high price that's spread very far and very thin. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FA4E7CDA-9F57-48AE-BFD3-90C52B0C3868/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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