Game Console Energy Usage Comparison

Broadband writes "Modern gaming consoles consume more and more power, dissipate more and more heat and cause a lot more noise with their cooling systems compared to their brethren a decade ago. While it's obvious that an Xbox 360 would have higher energy demands then a Playstation 1, the curious question is by how much? Even more importantly is the question of whether your console might be costing you money while you sleep. Preposterous you say? Actually quite the opposite! We put every console in our lab through rigorous testing to find the answers to these questions and see who the energy hogs really are. "

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Re:Standby Energy Usage

[Distinguished Hero]

I also had this to add in the above post but I reached the hard coded post length limit:
  For a case study, let us examine China, the best known country for reducing its population growth. At the beginning of the century, the population of China was approximately 2.5 the size of Germany. Due to Mao's imbecilic ideas (including encouraging everyone to have more children), the population of China skyrocketed. All the while, Mao's economic policy lowered the average standard of living (also see Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution). Today, China's population stands at 15 times that of Germany. It was only once the one child policy was implemented (even though it is not implemented as well or as throughly as people tend to think) and the market was liberalized (freed), that the standard of living started improving. Huge increases in population are beneficial mostly if one is interested in fighting wars or creating empires (and thereby increasing the resources at your disposal). For increasing standards of living, huge, rapid, increases in population sizes as is happening in the developing world do not tend to work very well. Of course, you don't want to depopulate your population rapidly or considerably either, as is currently happening in the West, especially if you want to run a socialist system such as social security, which requires the current generation to directly support the previous, instead of having the previous support itself through its own investment. In fact, the need for workers (in my case highly skilled) to offset the rapid decline in population and maintaing social programs is why I am living where I am (and perhaps you as well), and why Western Europe, Australia, Canada, and the US are experiencing huge surges in immigrant populations.

I had some more stuff to add, but I suppose this shall suffice.