"Philip Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/11/07, Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] Is it better for me to use an old > > Pentium as a firewall, or "sponsor" the manufacture of a lower-powered > > embedded device? > > It's when people ask questions like this that make me realise that the > way to reduce CO2 emissions is for the government to tax them [...]
Which won't work because people can't distinguish the effect of running a computer from all the other things which affect their energy consumption! Also, stated energy consumptions of machines you don't own yet rarely reflect reality, which makes the comparison doubly-hard. The government should subsidise those new single-device energy meters, so people who care could compare and choose wisely. That would be a good step towards helping answer questions like Dave Page's one above. Regards, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Experienced webmaster-developers for hire http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Also: statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, workers co-op. Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
