Avi's corner

 It is pretty clear (well, at least to me) that solar energy is the future. Not wind, wave or bio-fuels will ever be able to provide the level f energy required to power the world. Today, about half of the incoming solar power is absorbed by the land and ocean (~90 PW) and the rest is released back to space.

90PW ! geez... to power the entire planet we don't need more than 20 TWe...

 

I've been looking for good information about solar power effeciency for a while now. and finally I found something which personally amazes me...

The black dots represent the land area required to replace the total world energy supply with electricity from solar cells (assuming a conversion efficiency of 8%)

 

Amazing isn't it?

And still our dumb govrenments choose to waste our money somewhere else...

 

Source: http://www.ez2c.de/ml/solar_land_area/

 

As sticky as PKI components are, there is an easy way to migrate from the Entrust PKI to the Microsoft one. A small company named Edgile developed a set of migration tools that automate some of the migration steps. Pretty cool stuff...

 

Take a look at the demo:http://www.edgile.com/solution.cfm?level1=what_we_do&level2=PKI_Toolkit_Demo

 

My OCSP whitepaper was moved, new link:

 

Have fun!

For those of you interested in the new Smart Card subsystem in Windows we introduced for Windows Vista - this is the paper for you!