radish;427098 Wrote: > Very true, up to a point. You or I individually won't make any > appreciable difference, but if everyone increased their domestic use 5% > then new power plants would be needed to keep that 10% buffer. Likewise, > if everyone lowered their domestic usage 5% I'm sure some plants could > be shut down (and there certainly are plants which don't run 24/7 but > are used only for peak times). > > When it comes to SC servers I'm sure it's a tiny drop in a vast ocean, > but when you have things like fold...@home shipping on 10 million PS3s > with no mention of the power issues (those things are thirsty), then I > start to be a little concerned personally.
Well, then I think you're beating the wrong drum. You admonished mortslim for his suggestion for SC servers, but now you agree there's no significant consumption impact of doing so. If the problem is PS3 users, go after them. In the US, most electrical consumption is commercial/industrial and summertime air conditioning. Addiing PCs and/or leaving them on in homes has less than a negligible effect on production and infrastructure, it arguably has no effect at all. Sorry, I'm perhaps overly sensitive to people who espouse feel-good causes and who think that gives them the right to tell others what to do. -- Goodsounds ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Goodsounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14201 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63681 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
