Electricity bill [was: Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?]
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013 at student.uu.se
Tue Feb 8 02:17:37 PST 2005
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:12:19AM +0100, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
>
> * Louis LeBlanc [2005-02-07 14:57 -0500]
> > I'm coming into this thread a bit late, but if you go to
> :
> > You'll see a neat little gadget that will tell you exactly what your
> > computers electrical usage is.
>
>
> I'm not saying that leaving your computer on 24/7 consumes little power.
> I'm just saying that in Norway (where I live) and in Sweden (where the
> person I replied to seems to live) how much power used by your computers
> is irrelevant.
>
> This is true because:
>
> 1) Our house need to be heated a lot (more than the computer can provide)
True.
> 2) Other heatsources are also based on electricity
Not necessarily true. It was my message you originally replied to, and
the apartment where I live has central heating, such that the heating
is included in teh rent, and does not show up on the electricity bill
(and I don't think the heating uses electricity anyway.)
Power used by the computer is relevant for me, and shows up directly on
the electricity bill (while heating does not.)
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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013 at student.uu.se
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