I agree, of course it is ludicrous to think otherwise.
It has always bothered me that we rectify AC power to store it in
batteries, then
re-invert it to power AC servers only for them to rectify it again....
Dan.
"Tom (UnitedLayer)" wrote:
It's not crazy, it's just not reasonable.
What I mean, of course, is that in a collocation model, where you have
customers bringing in computers, it is not reasonable to mandate that they
use DC power. You'd have no customers. Which, in turn, may be a benefit,
since you wouldn't need the power system in the first place.
http://www.zocalo.net/woody/photos/03.05-Misc/removing-batteries.jpg
http://www.zocalo.net/woody/photos/03.05-Misc/ballooned-batteries.jpg
Yes, that is in fact a _Model T truck axle_. And I thought I was only
keeping it around as a LART. 
-Bill