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Internet's Energy Needs Growing Faster Than Efficiency Gains
Electrons may not weigh anything, but it takes some heavy lifting, both literal and figurative, to point them in the right direction. Reader terrancem writes with this excerpt: "Energy efficiency gains are failing to keep pace with the Internet's rapid rate of expansion, says a new paper published in the journal Science. Noting that the world's data centers already consume 270 terawatt hours and Internet traffic volume is doubling every three years, Diego Reforgiato Recupero of the University of Catania argues for prioritizing energy efficiency in the design of devices, networks, data centers, and software development. Recupero highlights two approaches for improving efficiency: smart standby and dynamic frequency scaling or CPU throttling."
You lost me there.
What about the energy offset?
How much energy is consumed by driving to blockbuster, picking up a physical tape that had to be produced and shipped to the store Vs. streaming from Netflix?
How about paying bills online vs mailing an envelope.
I'm not sure what the number is but it may be possible that for every increase in energy 'x' by computers there was '5x' amount of energy saved in other areas???
Your post advocates a
( ) technical (X) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante ( ) form-based
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work ...
Yada yada yada ...
(X) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money^W^Whis head
Yada yada ...
(X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(X) Open relays in foreign countries
(X) Asshats
(X) Jurisdictional problems
(X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
(X) Extreme profitability of spam
(X) Technically illiterate politicians
(X) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
(X) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
Yada Yada
(X) I don't want the government reading my email
(X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(X) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down
Actually, the mass of an electron is: 9.10938291(40)×10^31 kg :-)
I think you might have missed a minus sign there. Unless the Sun is an electron.