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Date:      Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:58:20 +0800
From:      Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>
To:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        Michael Vince <mv@roq.com>, Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems
Message-ID:  <437AD88C.8020504@alphaque.com>
In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEMHFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
References:  <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEMHFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>

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On 11/15/05 12:23 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following:
> Hmm - let's see now, where does this extra "wasted" power go?  It
> is turned into heat.  Which heats your house.  Which means you do
> not have to run the furnace so much, thus saving energy there.

that's a very geocentric view. for most of us who live in the tropics or on 
the equator where the ambient temperature is 31degC, the wasted power is 
really wasted twice: once from the PC, and once more thru higher 
airconditioning/cooling devices.

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