[clug] Re CO2 footprint of Searches: Storm in A Tea Cup or Deep Green Issue?

Alex Satrapa grail at goldweb.com.au
Tue Sep 8 23:30:51 MDT 2009


On 09/09/2009, at 14:34 , jm wrote:

> The think to keep in mind here is that these thing have huge fixed  
> energy costs and very low variable energy costs. To the example of  
> the printer which consumes 24W in standby and 25W while printing.

on a totally different tangent, I'm wondering why a printer requires  
24W when on standby, while the computer controlling it "only" consumes  
2W on standby.

I find it misleading to label something as "standby" when all that  
really means is, "lights on the front panel are switched off".

Alex



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