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Re:An efficient power converter design reduces resting power... by lorenzhs on Friday March 17, 2017 @05:51AM (#13892750)
200 GWh/year is a little less than 23 MW. A full power plant is on the order of several hundred MW to around a GW. You also don't need to replace the power plant every year. I agree that standby power usage is terribly wasteful but your calculation is off by a large factor.
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Re:An efficient power converter design reduces resting power... by nwah1 on Friday March 17, 2017 @11:26AM (#13894675)
Given the Jevons Paradox, we can predict that the lower energy use will translate to higher demand for IoT technologies, thus increasing the world energy requirements for these devices.
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