Comments on: Big Push for Energy Efficient IT http://www.terrainfirma.co.uk/blog/2007/06/big-push-for-energy-efficient-it.html The Sustainable Business Blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:30:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://www.terrainfirma.co.uk/blog/2007/06/big-push-for-energy-efficient-it.html/comment-page-1#comment-239 Anonymous Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:08:00 +0000 http://www.terrainfirma.co.uk/blog/2007/06/big-push-for-energy-efficient-it.html#comment-239 You can still buy PC PSUs having a power factor in the region of 0.5!!!<br /><br />In this day and age, PF of at least 0.8 should be easily achieveable. You can still buy PC PSUs having a power factor in the region of 0.5!!!

In this day and age, PF of at least 0.8 should be easily achieveable.

]]> By: swaraj@technites.co.uk http://www.terrainfirma.co.uk/blog/2007/06/big-push-for-energy-efficient-it.html/comment-page-1#comment-240 swaraj@technites.co.uk Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:32:00 +0000 http://www.terrainfirma.co.uk/blog/2007/06/big-push-for-energy-efficient-it.html#comment-240 While I applaud the efforts of these noteworthies to reduce the heat output on CPUs, one cant avoid the fact that the IT industry (of which my own business is also a part) is based largely on large scale consumption of oil, plastics, silicon, wood, rubber, metals etc. They need the global consumer to be just that - keep buying in ever increasing amounts regardless of whether they need to or not. OK, so this may reduce/slow down global warming by 0.00001% but wont change the fact that overall pollution and exploitation of the physical world will still go on. While I applaud the efforts of these noteworthies to reduce the heat output on CPUs, one cant avoid the fact that the IT industry (of which my own business is also a part) is based largely on large scale consumption of oil, plastics, silicon, wood, rubber, metals etc. They need the global consumer to be just that - keep buying in ever increasing amounts regardless of whether they need to or not. OK, so this may reduce/slow down global warming by 0.00001% but wont change the fact that overall pollution and exploitation of the physical world will still go on.

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