some ruminations on saving money, power, etc.

[Dan Ritter]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:53:40AM -0500, Jack Coats wrote:
> Then there is the secondary power costs.  Cost to cool/heat.
> It is a heat source, so it compensates for some heat that would
> be required from elsewhere (pretty minimal), but if you have
> to run air conditioning and have a SERR of 10, then your $60/year
> costs you 10% more during the cooling season. (Say 6 months
> so that is $3 more)
> 
> Also calculate in any network infrastructure on the power considerations,
> like switches, routers, cable boxes, oh yes, UPSes (they are almost
> REQUIRED where I live... and they are not very energy efficient, but
> newer ones are better than older ones on their power conversion ratios )

None of that is going to change. Oh, at some point I'll go from
two 100M switches to two gigabit switches, but it won't be soon
and nothing will go away.

-dsr-