dream my GREEN dream?

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: taltamir
the most important aspect of environmentalism is the SOURCE of your power...

If you move to a 100% renewable energy plan you pay a little more per kwh. But the more you waste the BETTER. By WASTING more kwh you are paying more to a renewable source (that does no damage to environment) which in turn subsedizes the construction and reseach of more renewable energy sources, in turn decreasing the cost of renewable and making MORE people make the switch.

Paying more money for a slightly more efficient machine = pollute a little less...
Paying more money for green power = 0 pollution, and the more power you waste the better off the environment cause it is cheaper for other people to make the switch...


I utilize power savings everywhere it makes sense ECONOMICALLY. I calculate to the cent the cost per year on EVERY part that I purchase. And I know exactly how much money i save/waste by buying each part, corrolate it with it's expected lifetime, and make a "cost of ownership" chart to see how much it will cost to own AND operate a device...

Correct environmentalism has nothing to do with power savings.

wouldnt this only apply if we got power via nuclear and solar?

Coal based plants i dont think the power is renewable, as the fossil fuel once burned can not be renewed unless we have another mass extinction event followed by a couple million years for the carbon to turn back into oil.

 

[taltamir]

Well, from a physics standpoint there is no such thing as renewable ...
but basically:
nuclear (most environmentalists unwisely shun it)
solar (nuclear in the sun)
wind (caused by solar)
hydro-electric (caused by sun and gravity)
tide (caused by gravity of the moon)
And organically grown fuel (solar power captured by plants)

ALL of those powers ARE available for purchase today.

Theoretically you could also capture lightening directly, etc... but those are not really available.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: taltamir
Well, from a physics standpoint there is no such thing as renewable ...
but basically:
nuclear (most environmentalists unwisely shun it)
solar (nuclear in the sun)
wind (caused by solar)
hydro-electric (caused by sun and gravity)
tide (caused by gravity of the moon)
And organically grown fuel (solar power captured by plants)

ALL of those powers ARE available for purchase today.

Theoretically you could also capture lightening directly, etc... but those are not really available.

Back to the Future?

 

[taltamir]

star treck TBS I bought in 1996 (i think) where you could build such a thing.. but i am sure it is not the place where the idea originated (it is just where I first got it, when I was 12)...

 

[hans007]

well the reason i made a"greener" computer is because i figure i might as well. all else being equal, why not?

at least get the true 80 power supply. and a 45nm cpu . get a mobo without too much crap built onto it if you arent gonna use it, and use less sticks of ram

and thats an easy way to get it. and get a lower power video card like a 3850 512mb if you need one instead of say a 8800GTS g80.

 

[Martimus]

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: Martimus
This is the HTPC I was about to build until I realized that Linux doesn't support Bluray. I tried to make it consume as little power as I could to keep the cooling low enough to mak e a silent box. Too bad I never got to build it

Antec New Solution NSK2480

Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H 780G uATX MB

AMD Athlon X2 4450e 45W CPU

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB HD

Lite-On SATA Blu-ray drive

For $500, but I hadn't picked out some RAM yet.

LOL.... Almost identical on my friends HTPC setup.

Same hardware minus the cpu. Instead i put a tricore phenom inside. I should of gotten her the BE tho. :\

Yeah, I was planning on having fun playing with Linux (which I hadn't done since college) and make it useful at the same time to justify the cost; but alas Bluray has DRM schemes that aren't compatible with Linux at the moment.