[LINK] Climate Savers Computing Org

Stewart Fist stewart_fist at optusnet.com.au
Thu Jun 14 10:41:57 AEST 2007


Stephen copied:
> 
> .. A coalition of technology companies and environmental
> groups led by Google Inc. and the Intel Corp. launched an
> initiative Tuesday to conserve electricity .... "Currently, the
> average PC wastes about half of the power it consumes.."

Surely when the output is information or entertainment, then a computer
wastes ALL the power it consumes.

Information isn't related to energy in anyway, so the output is energy-less.

This is one of those silly techno-economic statements where the figures you
reveal rest totally on the assumptions you make.



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