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To: robert b furman who wrote (182583)	11/9/2005 8:37:02 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

why don't we change thread to politics vs intel.

To: robert b furman who wrote (182583)	11/9/2005 10:57:03 AM
From: aleph0	Respond to of 186894

Before everyone complains that OIL is OT, my view is that the energy used by PCs is probably one of the major contributors to the "needless" burning of energy ! ( something I've been ranting on about - AMD's energy-efficiency advantage ) Assumption #1 : 600 mio. PCs and Servers in use world wide Assumption #2 : 1,000 mio. CPUs in use world wide Assumption #3 : 100 Watt difference between using "current" AMD and Intel CPUs Assumption #4 : the mix of private/commercial(24/7) usage ca. 10 hours/day ( Assumption #3 includes the extra power-consumption for cooling etc. ) An "oversimplified" example of what the above assumptions might mean : 100 Watt x 10 hours x 365 days x 0.16 Euros/Kilowatt x 1,000 Mio. CPUs == 58,400,000,000 Euros Worldwide. 58 Billion Euros ! And this is just the "difference between using a more efficient CPU" ! Multiply that number by 3 at least for the total system power-usage == 174 Billion Euros worldwide !! robert... here is the link to the PDF file if you'd like to read it. It's well layed out with conclusions at the end. Future world oil supply International Summer School On the Politics and Economics of Renewable Energy at the University Salzburg 15 th July 2002 energiekrise.de