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Trevor wrote:
"Wolfgang Weisselberg" wrote in message news Of course, if electricity is so dear to you, you might try use the computer less (less newsgroups, less photos, less websurfing) and go to bed around sunset (saving electric lights). Might have to the way things are going :-( I happen to own a few XOs. They run at 7 Watts if everything (including the camera and the screen at full brightness) is on and the CPU is working heavily (and quite a bit less normally). With the right technology, they can run off muscle power. (Newer versions use even less power.) That could be your solution. But for the moment turning off at night is a good compromise. Sleeping when it's dark and reducing heating and air conditioning works even better. -Wolfgang |
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wrote: Wolfgang Weisselberg writes: Sleeping when it's dark and reducing heating and air conditioning works even better. Heating and air conditioning are a function of the weather. Sleeping is a function of fatigue. Neither is something one can control at will. Now you are being silly. Think about Wolfgang's scheme in the context of this barking mad thread for a moment. A small move toward sleeping when it is dark and isolating yourself a bit less from the weather outside would massively outweigh any energy savings you could achieve by any of the computer sleep, boot, power off strategies being discussed here. It would be easy to save a Kilowatt in HVAC and lighting, yet we are talking single digit Watts dividing the boot or not boot strategies. In other words, about a thousand time less sensible than Wolfgang is being. -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 |
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"Wolfgang Weisselberg" wrote in message ... But for the moment turning off at night is a good compromise. Sleeping when it's dark and reducing heating and air conditioning works even better. Don't even have air con, and use a heater rarely, so that won't help much. Trevor. |
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Trevor wrote:
"Wolfgang Weisselberg" wrote in message But for the moment turning off at night is a good compromise. Sleeping when it's dark and reducing heating and air conditioning works even better. Don't even have air con, and use a heater rarely, so that won't help much. So your house does not have any heating, not even from an open fire? -Wolfgang |
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Wolfgang Weisselberg writes:
Trevor wrote: "Wolfgang Weisselberg" wrote in message But for the moment turning off at night is a good compromise. Sleeping when it's dark and reducing heating and air conditioning works even better. Don't even have air con, and use a heater rarely, so that won't help much. So your house does not have any heating, not even from an open fire? How did you get from "use a heater rarely" to "not have any heating"? -- David Dyer-Bennet, ; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info |
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David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Wolfgang Weisselberg writes: Trevor wrote: "Wolfgang Weisselberg" wrote in message But for the moment turning off at night is a good compromise. Sleeping when it's dark and reducing heating and air conditioning works even better. Don't even have air con, and use a heater rarely, so that won't help much. So your house does not have any heating, not even from an open fire? How did you get from "use a heater rarely" to "not have any heating"? "use a heater rarely" = probably a single mobile, electrical unit "have heating" = usually something installed at least for the whole appartment, if not the whole house, often based on oil or gas. Usually in effect for some months per year. Might also be used to provide warm water. Maybe my Engrish-fu is too weak. -Wolfgang |
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"Wolfgang Weisselberg" wrote in message ... Sleeping when it's dark and reducing heating and air conditioning works even better. Don't even have air con, and use a heater rarely, so that won't help much. So your house does not have any heating, not even from an open fire? Don't have an open fire, but how could I use a heater "rarely" if I didn't have any? Trevor. |
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Trevor wrote:
"Wolfgang Weisselberg" wrote in message Sleeping when it's dark and reducing heating and air conditioning works even better. Don't even have air con, and use a heater rarely, so that won't help much. So your house does not have any heating, not even from an open fire? Don't have an open fire, but how could I use a heater "rarely" if I didn't have any? See other post. -Wolfgang |
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