Principles of Green Software Engineering

Re:Principles of Green Software Engineering by PoissonVache on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:15AM (#28615929)

My mom keeps bothering me to turn off the light before I leave home while any of the Youtube video she watch costs as much energy as keeping my light on for days/months. If only people were more aware of the energy cost of Internet.

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Re:Principles of Green Software Engineering by oytis on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:56AM (#28616352)

Now I feel really old, but your mom probably remembers time when a bright lightbulb would consume twice as much energy as a modern laptop (which was like 10-15 years ago)

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Re:Principles of Green Software Engineering by Torwald on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:35AM (#28616137)

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think saving energy is the wrong overall way to go. Better is to be 100% renewable (or otherwise "green") when generating energy, so that consumption ceases to be an issue.

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Re:Principles of Green Software Engineering by burkaman on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:18AM (#28616563)

The right thing is to do both, because we don't have time to relax and wait for the grid to be 100% renewable. Using less energy means we can convert the grid more quickly.

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Re:Principles of Green Software Engineering by hinkley on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @01:00PM (#28618762)

The power budget on big screen TVs has snuck up on people and doesn't get enough air time.

In many houses the TV is using more power than the fridge, and in some cases more than your old fridge did.

My partner also complains about lights or leaving the fridge door open while I fetch food or drink from several containers, but then leaves the TV on counting on it to turn itself off (in an hour).

I think I'm going to have to explain conductivity and heat capacity, and remind everyone that I replaced all of the lights in the house with LEDs (some of which were goddamned expensive).

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Re:Principles of Green Software Engineering by pjc50 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:23AM (#28616006)

I'd want numbers for that; youtube is fairly efficient, especially on a mobile device.

Coincidentally I found a thread recently (in French) claiming that it was more energy-efficient to watch Netflix than broadcast TV: https://twitter.com/pbeyssac/status/1439977593315512320

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