zdnet.com.au — Roughly 50 percent of the power delivered from a wall socket to a PC never actually performs any work, according to Urs Hölzle, Google fellow and senior vice president of operations. Half the energy gets converted to heat or is dissipated in the AC-to-DC conversion. Around 30 percent of the power delivered to the average server is also lost.
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error601Jun 13, 2007
50%? I would have to say that all the power gets converted to heat.
damentzJun 13, 2007
But its got electrolytes.
unfriendlyfireJun 13, 2007
I think some of it would be converted to rfi, emi and light (the monitor, led's, etc.)
withincontextJun 13, 2007
@dougmc"The 60 MHz Pentium chip only used 13 watts" because it's not processing nearly as much information. Use an old computer? Go f#ck yourself, sir.
derjamesJun 13, 2007
Z80 is the way to go...
pabsterJun 13, 2007
Solution: Use a laptop or a SFF desktop. All my machines use 65 watts or less, generally much less.
dougmcJun 13, 2007
`I think some of it would be converted to rfi, emi and light (the monitor, led's, etc.)'Well, two things --1) only a very very small percentage of the energy is converted to any of those things, and2) then those things are converted into heat. (Well, any RFI that happens to go up might get radiated into space and will never be converted into heat -- but any that goes down gets absorbed by the Earth and turned into heat.)I guess you are right though -- a tiny tiny percentage of the power used doesn't actuallymake it into heat. Anything that makes it into outer space is probably relatively safe, atleast for a few billion years.