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Raffaele BELARDI wrote: |
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> On 09/18/2012 11:03 PM, Dale wrote: |
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>> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:53:53 -0500 |
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>>> Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> When I moved in with my GF, her electric bill shoot up to the roof (I |
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>>>> brought my 46" LCD TV, PlayStation 3, and in total 5 computers and |
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>>>> other electronics). After a couple of months of shock of seeing the |
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>>>> electric bills, we started to do this kind of stuff |
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>>>> (suspending/hibernating our machines, using CFL instead of normal |
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>>>> light bulbs, etc.), and we cut the spending almost in four. |
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>>> Apartment living maybe? |
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>>> I have 1 XBox, 2 Wii's, 40" LED TV, 22" LED monitor, 16" LCD monitor, an |
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>>> xbmc frontend, 2 el-cheap android tablets permanently plugged in, 1 |
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>>> desktop, 2 HP microservers and 3 laptops running almost 24/7. And about |
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>>> 10 incandescent bulbs all evening, 2 neons and umpteen CFLs. |
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>>> It's a lot of power, sure. |
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>>> And all quite insignificant when compared to what the swimming pool |
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>>> pump uses...... |
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>>> All a matter of perspective I suppose :-) |
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>> My biggest expenses, refrigeration and heating/cooling. I have a large |
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>> fridge, two deep freezers, two window A/C's for summer and a large |
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>> heater for the winter. Compare any of those to my computer, the |
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>> computer is a rounding error. My main rig, monitor, router, DSL modem |
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>> and printer pulls about 150 watts at most. At most would be while it is |
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>> compiling or something. When idle, ~100 watts. I figured it up once |
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>> and I think it costs about $12.00 a month to run. Heck, when I have a |
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>> $200.00 power bill, rounding error comes to mind. Heck, taxes and fees |
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>> on the power bill is more than my puter uses. I would much rather fuss |
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>> about the taxes than my puter. I use my puter. lol |
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>> I think you hit it pretty good tho Alan. It's perspective. |
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> It's not only about power bill costs. Oil and gas are limited resources |
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> and we're not leaving much to the next generations. Yes, it's a matter |
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> of perspective :-) |
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> raf |
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And every day I hear about them finding more oil and gas that they |
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didn't know was there before. Everything is a limited resource |
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including sunlight. If we are going to live thinking the end is |
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tomorrow, then we are not going to have a life worth living. |
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Reminds me of a quote I heard a little while ago. 'We shouldn't eat to |
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live, we should live to eat.' It was something like that. I think I |
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got it right since I didn't exactly write it down. They were talking |
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about food but still. If you live, you have to use something. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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