Week 14 Reading Notes

Coming from a energy consulting background, the comparison between Cloud Computing and the utility grid was particularly interesting to me. One of the advantages of the grid though, is that you can be paid for generating electricity and returning it to the grid. For example, there is a process called cogeneration where fuel is burned to both produce heat and electricity. In some cases the fuel can be sold back to the grid, often in the form of a credit of some kind. I wonder whether a similar idea will one day be applied to cloud computing. For example, using a cloud computer processing to create a web-app that enriches the cloud could earn you some sort of discounted access fees. Just a thought.