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A Kilowatt of Power
An anonymous reader writes "There is finally a review available of a kilowatt power supply. The PC Power and Cooling 1KW produces 1000W of power output with 1100W peak. The review points out how great this product did in the testing but was not afraid to admit how much of an overkill it is for the enthusiast market. From the article, 'In the current computing world, where more always equals "better than" the 1KW is king.'"
As usual some self righteous green peace wannabe tries to relate something they view as inefficent to gas guzzling SUV's. BZZZT, try again. The power supply only draws 1kw if a 1kw load is hooked to it.
uhhh, no?
While over-consumption of most natural resources will likely lead to the eventual death of all species who depend on those resources, running out of oil and uranium will not. Further, while it is also true that the waste produced by over-consumation is often toxic, the amount of waste produced by uranium and oil used in electricity production is not a significant danger.
Ironically, it is the so-called environmentalists who are forcing electric power companies to use more wasteful technologies to meet a rapidly increasing demand for electric power. The use of nuclear power produces zero emissions, and recycleable waste.
Equally ironic is that it was Jimmy Carter, with the aid of Gerald Ford, who prevented US companies from recycling their nuclear waste by executive order in 1979, but while Ronald Reagan lifted the ban in 1981, there is still grassroots opposition to both new reactors and spent fuel recycling. This opposition makes little logical sense given the fact that nuclear reactors are a zero-emmisions technology (I don't think they had ionizing radition in mind when they coined that term.) and even without recycling, a relatively small amount of spent fuel has been created in the first place. In the last 40 years the total amount of commercial spent fuel would fill an American football field to a dept of 5 yards.
The sad fact is, that we should be building nukes all over the US, and enjoying cheap plentiful electricity throughout the country. While doing this we should be closing down coal and oil fired power plants. This would, of course, cut green house emissions, which I don't much care about, but more importantly, it would cut pollutants in the atmosphere which I, and most other people, care about very much. A by product may also be the closure of natural gas fired electric power plants which, hopefully, would decrease industrial demand, and cause prices to fall for consumers.