Status of 6.0 for production systems

Dinesh Nair dinesh at alphaque.com
Wed Nov 16 07:10:58 GMT 2005


On 11/15/05 12:23 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following:
> Hmm - let's see now, where does this extra "wasted" power go?  It
> is turned into heat.  Which heats your house.  Which means you do
> not have to run the furnace so much, thus saving energy there.

that's a very geocentric view. for most of us who live in the tropics or on 
the equator where the ambient temperature is 31degC, the wasted power is 
really wasted twice: once from the PC, and once more thru higher 
airconditioning/cooling devices.

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