Hrm. There may indeed be some confusion.
One chip has a capacity of sixteen gigabits (16 Gb). Assuming a byte size of eight bits, a sixteen gigabyte (16 GB) drive contains eight 16 Gb chips, as implied by the document you quoted.
A complete drive also contains an interface or bus controller chip if mandated by the spec, additional electronics as required to create a functional device, a circuit board, a connector to interface with the rest of the world, and a protective case to avoid interfacing with the unfriendly parts of the world.
Looking from this corner of the globe (Finland), half a dollar per kilowatt is a pretty stiff price for electricity. What's the pricing structure?
The power market is pretty competitive, with consumer price at about 0.10 EUR/kWh (about $1.2/kWh).
Over here, most power plant companies sell electricity to the Nord Pool (http://www.nordpool.com/). Power vendors buy it from the pool and sell it to individual customers (with markup). The vendor's duty toward the customer is basically taking meter readings and sending bills. The customer makes a supply contract with any one of a largish number of various vendors, the main differences being marketing slogans, supermarket chain bonus points, and amount of markup. The electricity, after all, is the same.[1]
The power is actually supplied by the utility company, which is responsible for their part of the supply network from the grid to the customer's location. They also charge for this, based on the kWh transferred. There's also a tax per kWh, and a monthly base charge on top of all this.
All of this works out to about 0.10 EUR/kWh. You may be able to affect the final price by up to a cent by switching vendors.
The heavy industry will have none of this. They won't buy this horribly expensive pool power (which is as of this writing 37.88 EUR/MWh = 0.03788 EUR/kWh); therefore they have founded their own power company, (http://www.tvo.fi/index_eng.shtml) which has built power plants to produce "as much power as possible, as economically and safely as possible". Only stock owners have access to their power. Of the power produced, 89 % came from nuclear plants, and 11 % from coal.
[1] Some vendors do specialize by selling power produced by environmentally friendly means. Seems that buying this might increase the production of these plants in proportion to the rest. Whether this has any real impact or not remains to be seen.
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A complete drive also contains an interface or bus controller chip if mandated by the spec, additional electronics as required to create a functional device, a circuit board, a connector to interface with the rest of the world, and a protective case to avoid interfacing with the unfriendly parts of the world.
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Then you'd be required to fence off your trashcan at a safe distance with tape marked
EVENT HORIZON - DO NOT CROSS
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Looking from this corner of the globe (Finland), half a dollar per kilowatt is a pretty stiff price for electricity. What's the pricing structure?
The power market is pretty competitive, with consumer price at about 0.10 EUR/kWh (about $1.2/kWh).
Over here, most power plant companies sell electricity to the Nord Pool (http://www.nordpool.com/). Power vendors buy it from the pool and sell it to individual customers (with markup). The vendor's duty toward the customer is basically taking meter readings and sending bills. The customer makes a supply contract with any one of a largish number of various vendors, the main differences being marketing slogans, supermarket chain bonus points, and amount of markup. The electricity, after all, is the same.[1]
The power is actually supplied by the utility company, which is responsible for their part of the supply network from the grid to the customer's location. They also charge for this, based on the kWh transferred. There's also a tax per kWh, and a monthly base charge on top of all this.
All of this works out to about 0.10 EUR/kWh. You may be able to affect the final price by up to a cent by switching vendors.
The heavy industry will have none of this. They won't buy this horribly expensive pool power (which is as of this writing 37.88 EUR/MWh = 0.03788 EUR/kWh); therefore they have founded their own power company, (http://www.tvo.fi/index_eng.shtml) which has built power plants to produce "as much power as possible, as economically and safely as possible". Only stock owners have access to their power. Of the power produced, 89 % came from nuclear plants, and 11 % from coal.
[1] Some vendors do specialize by selling power produced by environmentally friendly means. Seems that buying this might increase the production of these plants in proportion to the rest. Whether this has any real impact or not remains to be seen.