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To: axial who wrote (2021)	2/11/2001 4:44:19 PM
From: ftth	Read Replies (1) of 46821

re: "I wonder if engineers are calculating the effect of say, 1000 PCs and their associated equipment, in an office building? " I'd tend to think it's less a factor than all the light bulbs throughout the building and at desks. On that article, it's a hefty dose of poorly-researched fear mongering. The statement "As a result, a crushing economic depression will follow, and all of the economic gains made over the last two centuries will be summarily reversed." says it all. Give me a break! Simply putting monitors into a sleep mode would go a long way towards putting a huge dent in the power consumption. But that requires people to kiss their beloved screen-savers good bye. Power consumption of monitors is generally larger than the rest of the PC, even if all resources of the rest of the PC are running at max (which seldom happens during normal use by typical office workers doing word processing and checking stock quotes). Yes, I know, people have to run their silly screen savers that also consume 90% of the processor power, for the benefit of no one. I think it is a screen saver crisis (and screen saver is a misnomer since they are purely for entertainment of passers-by. The problems with permanent scars to the tube from persistent display of the same information has been solved for years) And to this I add the same holds for notebook computers. The unbelievable hype of Transmeta's 1/2 watt CPU, compared to 1 watt of competitors (regardless of whether their original claims have been refuted or not and regardless of whether competitors have matched or beat the half watt number), pales in comparison to the other 50 watts being burned by all the other components of the notebook computer. It's kind of like saying my house is now energy efficient because I replaced the bathroom lightbulbs with energy-miser bulbs.

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