On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 12:25 +1100, Phill Edwards wrote: > > On Sunday 20 March 2005 14:33, Brad Templeton wrote: [snip] > > Why is all the talk about money? What about the environmental impacts > of leaving the things running all the time? We all have a duty to save > as much energy as we can to reduce global warming. Unfortunately > America and Australia (where I live) have not signed up to Kyoto which > is a crying shame.
This is OT, so I should resist, but it is worth noting that computers are getting better at saving power, as well as the Linux infrastructure to support it. If you wait a few years, the problem will likely solve itself there, more or less. Of course there are various options now for the determined, and in all likely hood wise decision making might save the differences on the electric bill. Yes I think it is quite dumb that my country (the US) refuses to sign up to Kyoto, or to at least try to work out some version the US can sign. We are after all the biggest polluters. Overall, we are not going to save our way out of the energy mess, although some can help a very great deal. The only sane solution seems to be nuclear. It doesn't cause global warming. It doesn't emit lots of air pollution or even the radioactivity of a coal plant emits into the air in the form of particles. Yes there is a small amount of extremely toxic material you have to store forever, but with the new techniques that apparently convert it into some form of glass like structure its apparently pretty stable. Sure it would be nice if fusion suddenly worked and all our problems were solved, but for now, nuclear seems the best bet. I'd certainly rather live next to a nuclear plant, than a coal burning one. Actually for something on topic, I wonder if it would be at all useful for mythfrontend to keep some form of internal timer going and if it exceeds some preset threshold, say 12 hours, without a channel change then for the system to give a warning and then exit live tv mode. The idea being to save power/wear and tear in the event someone forgets about it. I'm not sure its a feature anyone would really care about though. > > Regards, > Phill > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > -- Robert Denier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PhD Electrical Engineering (May 2005) University of Missouri-Rolla http://www.finiteinfinity.com
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