[ale] Microsoft tries to reverse Vista's Impact on the environment

[Drag0n]

The irony of that statement is, with the introduction of compact 
fluorescents, there was no reduction in power usage, just a shift to 
where the cost is. With CF bulbs using less KWH of power, but increasing 
the load on the power providers, the meter at the house spins less 
costing you less, but the generator at the station has to work harder to 
push that energy down the wire so they have to spend more to generate 
it. It is odd that the truly energy efficient light source gets no real 
air time ,LED lighting is many times more efficient and has a lower 
power factor than even CF or incandescent bulbs.


Drag0n

http://www.edn.com/blog/1470000147/post/450043045.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/08/2125250&tid=232



Richard Bronosky wrote:
> I would love to see someone do a study on what the effect on the power
> grid would be if all MSFT machines were changed to Linux. Consider
> lower resource requirements and elimination of malware and botnets. I
> bet it would be the biggest household go-green payoff second only to
> the elimination of incandescent lighting.
>