<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 27, 2011, at 7:19 PM, Rob van der Hoeven wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 22:09 +0800, Sandy Harris wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Slashdot story points to an item on set--top boxes burning<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">huge amounts of power:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/us/26cable.html?_r=4">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/us/26cable.html?_r=4</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">They mention 400-odd KWh a year At 5 watts times 24<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">times 365, a plug computer comes out an order of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">magnitude better.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This clearly is not the focus for the box, but it seemed<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">worth tossing into the discussions.<br></blockquote><br>I think it is very important to keep the power consumption low. In The<br>Netherlands where i live a KWh costs about 0.25 euro. A 5 watt device<br>running 24/7*365 uses 44 KWh a year (NOT 400 KWh) witch costs about 11<br>euros. The cost of running a device 24/7*365 is roughly wattage * 2. A<br>normal PC consumes about 70 watts and costs 140 euro to run for a year!<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I think this is selfexplaining and was part of eben moglens speech</div><div><br></div><div> “cheap, small, <em>low</em>-<em>power</em> plug servers,” Mr. Moglen said</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://agreatbecoming.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/the-freedom-box/">http://agreatbecoming.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/the-freedom-box/</a></div><div><br></div><div>greetings</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">-- Les enfants teribbles - research / deployment<br>Marc Manthey- Vogelsangerstrasse 97<br>50823 Köln - Germany<br>Tel.:0049-221-29891489<br>Mobil:0049-1577-3329231<br>blog: <a href="http://let.de/">http://let.de</a><br>twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/macbroadcast/">http://twitter.com/macbroadcast/</a><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">facebook <a href="http://www.facebook.com/opencu">http://www.facebook.com/opencu</a></div></div></body></html>