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Article #154Re: Computers use 7W when SWITCHED OFF!
From: bcoombes
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:23
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:23
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bcoombes wrote: > ~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. meaning even if it's not USED of course.
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