At 09:43 am 07/05/2006 +1000, you wrote: >In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Sat, 06 May 2006 02:41:34 >-0500: >Hi, >[snip] >>hmmmm...I wonder how many homes could be kept warm in the winter by all the >>heat generated by computers. >[snip] >That heat is already keeping them warm. It means less use of other >sources of heat. >Regards, > >Robin van Spaandonk
Well said Robin. :-) I'm sick a tired of pointing out to my scientifically illiterate relatives that in the winter it costs nothing to run the electrical devices in our house since thermostats automatically turn down the electric heating. Obviously, if one has an alternative much cheaper form of space heating then some savings can be made by switching off. Frank
