[LINK] Can a web server be powered by a wind turbine?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Tom Worthington
<tom.worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:
> Samuel Fernandes, one of my ANU masters students, will give a seminar on
> "Can a web server be powered by a wind turbine?", 10am, 18 June 2010, in
> Canberra. All welcome:
> <http://cecs.anu.edu.au/seminars/showone.pl?SID=2594>.

I´m particularly puzzled by the reference to a "web server". What
makes a "web server" different than a "database server" or "file
server" or just "pc" for that matter?.

Shouldn´t it have been titled "can a PC be powered by a wind turbine?".

Considering that there´s web servers for the smallest of devices (even
PalmOS smartphones and PDAs)...

http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/rees/pilot/

...if a PalmOS device can run from a wind turbine then of course a
PalmOS web server can run from it.

:)

...Just curious and thinking aloud....
FC
PS: Here´s one tiny embedded Linux device that looks very
promising.... the sheevaplug
http://www.nerdlogger.com/2009/02/linux-server-in-plug-is-hereonly-100.html