Consider a 500W power supply for 1 hour = .5 kwh @ ~$0.25 kwh which is what coned commercial rates were last month... at least at my office... so we're talking 12.5 cents per hour... I'm not sure about the exact power consumption of you laptop, but you can look at the power supply and figure it out from there. But say you have 10 of these hooligans 10 hours a day 365 days a year its say .25 * 10 * 10 * 365 = ~9000 more dollars a year /12 or about 800/month... Which a business owner will take note of... That is assuming the power supply is running at max power consumption the whole time, which is not very common.
I could see a socket tax :) at the coffee shop to offset the power usage... I really think I agree with it being a real estate issue more. It would be better to survey business owners. Ask them about their power expenditures before and after offering wireless, their change in sales. Then again instead of using the coffee shops power, I've been know to use those little plugs in the bushes all over manhattan :) --Darrel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Townsend Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 9:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [nycwireless] alt.coffee ixnays the owerpay i think its more about taking up real estate. On Feb 2, 2004, at 3:07 PM, Dana Spiegel wrote: > This is interesting... We should try to do some digging to find out > how much power is really an issue. If you are sitting with your laptop > for 2 hours, how much $$$ are you costing alt.coffee in electricity? I > would have expected this to be only a few cents, but perhaps this is > not the case? > > Anyone interested in doing some research? Perhaps there are better, > alternative solutions... > > Dana�Spiegel > Director, NYCwireless > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.nycwireless.net -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
