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To accompany the launch of GreeningofStreaming Tim Siglin and Dom Robinson have coauthored an article in StreamingMedia.com with more information about the state of Streaming and it’s power efficiency.. https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/The-Greening-of-Streaming-140965.aspx Please do share it out to your communities and encourage those who want to participate more to get involved in www.greeningofstreaming.org!

As one of the first to sign up with us at GreeningOfStreaming.org it is no real surprise (but nonetheless still extremely positive!) to see Limelight taking such a strong position with regard to driving power efficiency internally. Here is their recent press release, but we will be asking Ersin about their success and plan to follow with some contact point for others involved in GoS. https://www.environmentalleader.com/2020/05/limelight-networks-deep-dive/

There are snippets in this UK produced experiment where 80 cyclists with dynamos power a domestic house for a day. As a visual representation of power demand it is impacting. There are plenty of explorations about technology relating to similar power demands to streaming Customer Premises Equipment. Power is related to simplistic concepts such as number of burgers required for the equivalent energy of... etc. Very much a Watercooler post :)