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Article #208Re: Computers use 7W when SWITCHED OFF!
From: ~misfit~
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:21
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:21
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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.) -- Shaun. "Build a man a fire, and he`ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he`ll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett, Jingo.
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