If you find out where they sell the portable suns, let me know too.
I can probably resell them in northern Alaska and Canada so they can use their LG e-books in the winter!
If we assume that 50% of them are plugged in, that's an additional 100MW of generating capacity needed worldwide.
From a Houston Chronicle aritcle, http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/06/coa l_affordable_1.html, an 1000MW coal plant spews 6 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere per year. So, a 100MW coal plant would spew 600,000 tons of CO2 per year [544,310,844 kg] That's the impact. But, this is only for 2W standby power for one product. Also... $2.63 * 50 million = $131.5 million. That's like 1000 houses for 1000 homeless families... and that's in the United States... that money could go further in other places.
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References to Knuth's volumes titled "The Art of Computer Programming" http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html
are sprinkled liberally throughout many, many papers in computer science, especially wrt algorithms. It's more of an abstract art, as opposed to the "physical" arts like paintings and sculptures. You can't ignore the engineering aspect of it, yes, but if you manage to engineer a system well AND do so with simplicity, elegence, and creativity... well, that distinguishes the true progessional.
Don't limit yourself to earth... the solar system is a very big place. Earth is rather puny in comparison. The InterPlanetary Internet http://www.ipnsig.org/ SIG is working through issues on expanding the Internet outward [latency, anyone?]... and who knows? maybe in 100 years we'll have millions of robotic explorers and harvesters out there, all connected to one big network, and each having dozens or hundreds of components requiring an IP address each. Having a system in place now saves us from many, many, many firmware updates.
Slashdot headlines, Jan 31, 2106
Deep space probe thought to discover alien "trash"
Direct IPv6 Link to probe's 'real-time' camera
42,000nd comment: Light speed is too slow... but after 18 hours of staring at the screen waiting for the picture to come in, all I see is a flying toilet.
42,001st comment: Hmmm... try blinking to turn off your screen saver. You'll then see it's a Coca-Cola bottle.
next 20,000 comments:... the probe has been slashdotted!...
and one that says: man, those alien-space-deities must be crazy.
If you haven't noticed, they also installed a MISSE (Materials International Space Station Experiment) on the ISS which contains a few new types of solar cells. It's supposed to be up there for a year, seeing which one is more efficient. http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/pcsat2.html
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If you find out where they sell the portable suns, let me know too. I can probably resell them in northern Alaska and Canada so they can use their LG e-books in the winter!
If we assume that 50% of them are plugged in, that's an additional 100MW of generating capacity needed worldwide.a l_affordable_1.html, an 1000MW coal plant spews 6 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere per year. ... $2.63 * 50 million = $131.5 million. That's like 1000 houses for 1000 homeless families ... and that's in the United States ... that money could go further in other places.
From a Houston Chronicle aritcle, http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/06/co
So, a 100MW coal plant would spew 600,000 tons of CO2 per year [544,310,844 kg]
That's the impact. But, this is only for 2W standby power for one product.
Also
References to Knuth's volumes titled "The Art of Computer Programming" http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html
are sprinkled liberally throughout many, many papers in computer science, especially wrt algorithms. It's more of an abstract art, as opposed to the "physical" arts like paintings and sculptures. You can't ignore the engineering aspect of it, yes, but if you manage to engineer a system well AND do so with simplicity, elegence, and creativity ... well, that distinguishes the true progessional.
You mean a flying toilet
Don't limit yourself to earth ... the solar system is a very big place. Earth is rather puny in comparison. The InterPlanetary Internet http://www.ipnsig.org/ SIG is working through issues on expanding the Internet outward [latency, anyone?] ... and who knows? maybe in 100 years we'll have millions of robotic explorers and harvesters out there, all connected to one big network, and each having dozens or hundreds of components requiring an IP address each. Having a system in place now saves us from many, many, many firmware updates.
Slashdot headlines, Jan 31, 2106
Deep space probe thought to discover alien "trash"
Direct IPv6 Link to probe's 'real-time' camera
42,000nd comment: Light speed is too slow ... but after 18 hours of staring at the screen waiting for the picture to come in, all I see is a flying toilet.
42,001st comment: Hmmm ... try blinking to turn off your screen saver. You'll then see it's a Coca-Cola bottle.
next 20,000 comments: ... the probe has been slashdotted! ...
and one that says: man, those alien-space-deities must be crazy.
from the moment you posted that comment, the value you gave increased just a little bit more ...
If you haven't noticed, they also installed a MISSE (Materials International Space Station Experiment) on the ISS which contains a few new types of solar cells. It's supposed to be up there for a year, seeing which one is more efficient. http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/pcsat2.html