Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 04:35:57 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Dinesh Nair" <dinesh@alphaque.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: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEMMFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <437AD88C.8020504@alphaque.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dinesh Nair >Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:58 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Michael Vince; Peter Clutton; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems > > > >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. > In the tropics you are flooded with free energy streaming down on you all day long and your complaining?!?!? Please, search Google for the term "photovoltaic" and be enlightened. Ted
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