some ruminations on saving money, power, etc.

[Jerry Feldman]

On 09/29/2010 11:28 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:53:40AM -0500, Jack Coats wrote:
>  =20
>> 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 consideratio=
ns,
>> 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=
 )
>>    =20
> 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.
>
>  =20
One question, why don't you allow the systems to sleep. Or at least let
the display turn off.  I think the best thing to do is to move in with
Coats and get your power from the TVA :-)

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