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Article #153Re: Computers use 7W when SWITCHED OFF!
From: bcoombes
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:22
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:22
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~misfit~ wrote: > Somewhere on teh intarwebs bcoombes wrote: >> Synapse Syndrome wrote: >>> Conor <conor_turton@hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> I guess you also think that leaving a tv in standby is a waste >>>>>>>> too? >>>>>>> In the UK, there's been a big campaign >>>>>> And its all bollocks. >>>>>> >>>>> It's still tens of millions of watts wasted throughout the country. >>>>> >>>> And? You can't fully stop a powerstation from producing electricity >>> Whatever gave you that idea? It does not even seem to make much >>> sense. Are you saying that the National Grid is running at 100% >>> capacity all the time or what? It never has. >>> >> There is nearly always surplus capacity on the grid during off peak >> times as because of the sheer size and mass of large turbine rotors >> it takes several hours to run them up, also most turbine failures >> occur during run down/up so engineers prefer to keep them under load >> anyway, > > I think you'll find that they like to keep them spinning, but not 'under > load', at least no more load than minimum. > >>> Peak demand power power stations using gas and emergency diesel are >>> turned on and off all the time. And this issue is long term - >>> allowing lower capacity on the baseload power stations, using coal >>> and nuclear power (which can also be turned off, anyway). >>> >> Well, the fact that there are peak demand facilities doesn't >> invalidate Conor's point. > > So what's happening to all this power that's not being used? (Hint; It can't > just keep going round and round the lines waiting for someone to turn on a > switch on their computer.) No shit Sherlock..it's there on the grid and requires energy to produce even if it's not, which was Conor's point.
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