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Am Mittwoch, 19. September 2012, 01:51:49 schrieb Dale: |
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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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> >>> |
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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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> >>> |
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> >>> Apartment living maybe? |
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> >>> |
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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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> >>> |
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> >>> It's a lot of power, sure. |
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> >>> |
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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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> >>> |
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> >>> All a matter of perspective I suppose :-) |
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> >> |
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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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> >> |
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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. |
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I am sure everybody would love to hear about those findings. Especially the |
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CEO's of BP, Shell etc. |
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Fact is, we are running out. The stuff that is found is either very hard to get |
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- or not very much. Oh, and very little to start with. Consider current |
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consumption. |
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> 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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then turn off your computer. Have everything constantly on IS living like there |
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is no tomorrow. If you want a tomorrow, start energy saving a bit. |
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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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and because of some stupid, unrelated quote it is ok to be wasteful? |
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You love quotes? Here is one: |
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Waste not, want not. |
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