Re:2000-Watt Society
by rsynnott on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:55AM
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> If the average person has a modern desktop there's a good chance it has 400w power supply.
Well, first of all, the 400w is a limit, not a _target_. A computer with a 400w power supply does not generally run at 400w. If it did, you'd notice it; that's not an insignificant amount of heat.
However, more importantly, you've misread the article significantly:
> which pictures the average First World citizen reducing their overall average primary energy usage rate to no more than 2,000 watts (i.e. 2 kWh per hour or 48 kWh per day)
> Run a 400w power supply for 8 hours and you have used 3.2 kwh
Well, first of all, the 400w is a limit, not a _target_. A computer with a 400w power supply does not generally run at 400w. If it did, you'd notice it; that's not an insignificant amount of heat.
However, more importantly, you've misread the article significantly:
> which pictures the average First World citizen reducing their overall average primary energy usage rate to no more than 2,000 watts (i.e. 2 kWh per hour or 48 kWh per day)
> Run a 400w power supply for 8 hours and you have used 3.2 kwh
So well within budget, then.