Wow, did this thread veer off-topic! On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:50:40PM +0000, Chris wrote: > That is indeed a waste but consider that in that year the PC at 150 > watts
This is probably a high estimate, especially for an older, single-cpu box. > has consumed 60 times as much power as the router at 2.5 watts. I make > that 1314kWh for the PC and 21.9kWh for the router 24/7 for a year. > Anyone know how much power it takes to manufacture and deliver a small > router? And maybe other routers last a bit longer. You can probably get an idea from extrapolating these figures [1]: RAM: 11.4 kWh and 32 L water for 32 MB chip CPU: 1.4 kWh and 5.9 L water per square-cm silicon wafer LCD: 553 kWh and 2394 L water for a 15" monitor A dragonball CPU (2 dies each .343cm x .343 cm) requires 0.3 kWh and 1.4L. The impact of producing a CPU seems low to me, especially when compared to the RAM. Needs to do some more research ... :) m [1] Environmnetal Implications of New Wireless Technologies: News Delivery and Business Meetings by Michael W. Toffel, Haas School of Biz, UCal Berkely and Arpad Horvath, Civil Eng, UCal Berkely accepted for publication 3/18/2004 in American Chemical Society http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/responsiblebusiness/documents/wireless_asap.pdf _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"