From: Angela Ford
To: Mary Gourley
Subject: COMMENT for City Council - Thank you, Mary!
Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 6:28:27 PM
Attachments: Article-Report - The Cloud Begins with Coal-National Mining Association - August 2013.pdf READ into record on June 21, 2022
Emailed to Vice-City Manager Mary Gourley
with attachment, The Cloud Begins with Coal
Dear Mary,
Kindly forward this to:
Sebastopol City Mayor Patrick Slayter and Council Members Una Glass, Sarah Glade Gurney, Neysa Hinton and Diana Rich.
Sebastopol City Staff
Climate Action Committee members.
Thank you,
Angela Ford
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READ June 21, 2022
Emailed to Vice-City Manager Mary Gourley
with attachment, The Cloud Begins with Coal
Dear Mary,
Kindly forward this to:
Sebastopol City Mayor Patrick Slayter and Council Members Una Glass, Sarah Glade Gurney, Neysa Hinton and Diana Rich.
Sebastopol City Staff
Climate Action Committee members.
Thank you,
Angela Ford
“SMART” TECHNOLOGY and “GREEN”
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By now, most of us are aware that Syserco "green-washed" Sebastopol Council members, staff and the Climate Action Committee – lulling them into thinking it would be a good and green thing - to convert all of the City's 3,000 water meters into “smart” water meters. And only weeks after the Contract was signed did Syserco state,
. . .there has never been a claim that the new meters
save energy, save water, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 2/7/2022 Syserco email to Dante DelPrete, Sebastopol Public Works Superintendent II
TONIGHT I bring before you a 2013 Report, entitled “The Cloud Begins with Coal”. Sponsored by the National Mining Association, it's a deep dive into the electrical costs of “smart” technologies.
Excerpts from the Executive Sumary of this report follow:
The information economy is a blue-whale economy with its energy uses mostly out of sight. . . The ICT [Information-Communications-Technologies] ecosystem now approaches 10% of world electricity generation. Or in other energy terms . . .already uses about 50% more energy than global aviation. [2013 Report] The inherent nature of the mobile Internet, a key feature of the emergent Cloud architecture, requires far more energy than do wired networks.
Trends now promise faster, not slower, growth in ICT energy use.
Electricity fuels the infrastructure of the world's ICT ecosystem – the Internet, Big Data and the Cloud.
Coal is the world's largest single current and future source of electricity. Hence [they write] the title of this paper. [The Cloud Begins with Coal/Big Data, Big Networks, Big Infrastructure and Big Power].
Is this really where we want to go as a community?
Thanks for your attention.
Angela Ford