There is no such thing as a kilowatt per hour. The kilowatt is already assigned a unit of time and that unit of time is the second. Admittedly kw/h was wrong but surely there was no way he could have meant 13.7kw!! 13.7kwh is enough for over one house (1.2ish) for a year.13.7kw/h != 13.7kwh
I assumed you meant 13.7kw per hour
Okay Dokie
24 hours has passed.
With 2 hours of CoD4 played, Folding on all four cores overnight from 8pm until 9am, uber surfing, laptop online and working for 6 hours, one mibile charged, and a short stint with the light on
43pence useage.
This is more than I expected, though it's partly because the recent electricity increased prices, actually DOUBLED the nighttime electricity cost, so folding isn't as cheap as it was. BUT..... that means my PC office costs me about £13 per month in electricity, if the PC's only have a couple of hours downtime during the day.
HOWEVER....tomorrow I'm out most of the day, so PC's and laptop will be off or with me, so drain will drop massively.
Not as massively as I'd want as the PC won't BE off properlycos it doesn't work like that.
In all...I think I may justify buying a multiblock power socket WITH switches on it for each plug socket. Could pay for itself in under a year I think.
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
Overnight use....PC OFF......just everything left as I always leave it when it's OFF>..
1pence.
That's £3.65 per year for doing nothing, and it's all allegedly OFF.
Gutted....how much dough have I wasted?
The question is: Do you really want to go around unplugging it all for just 1p per day?
that's only your PC though..
think of everything else that's 'off'
have you checked how much your TV and stuff costs to run overnight while it's not even being watched?
we (me and my dad) leave the DVD player, VHS player, SkyHD box, Nintendo Wii, and xbox 360 all on standby or in a state that they can be turned on using a remote and the TV is actually switched off at the button, but that must still use a decent amount of power..
if you're really bothered about wasting money on electricity that's not being used, then you might aswell go the full hog and switch the lot off..
On a similar note... I saw a report last year which claimed that it would be economically viable for medium to large companies to employ a person purely to go around the office in the evening turning off PCs and monitors!
They could save enough money doing that to cover the cost of his wages.
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couldn't they just have 1 master switch for the whole room and knock the whole lot off from there?
1 flick of a switch.. and they'd probably save a good few quid each night.
i dunno how hard this would be to install, but i'm sure it would be possible..
what would you say you done if someone asked what you do for a living?
I think it may have beento illustrate an idea rather than a practical piece of advisecouldn't they just have 1 master switch for the whole room and knock the whole lot off from there?
1 flick of a switch.. and they'd probably save a good few quid each night.
i dunno how hard this would be to install, but i'm sure it would be possible..
what would you say you done if someone asked what you do for a living?
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Yeah, it's called a circuit braker and they are usually installed in the main electrical junction box somewhere in the building. Large offices will have seperate circuits for each floor or open plan office area. The complication is when you have networking equipment on the same ring main, that will probably need to stay on 24/7. Given the increasing cost of energy I can see buildings, especially large office blocks, being designed with this in mind. Would be incredibly expensive to retrofit though.
yeah, i knew that.. but don't those things trip automatically?
i'm meaning something more easily switched off..
can't see it costing too much in buildings being built atm, there's a few office buildings going up round here atm so they could possibly do that around here..Would be incredibly expensive to retrofit though.
and wouldn't/couldn't they get some kind of 'grant' from the government with it 'cause it'd be rather good for the environment (Y) and would help the government reach their goals of cutting emmisions if a lot of office buildings get in on the act.
In a world where servers and VPN weren't needed then maybe that would be fine. Buts its not very practical. Would be easier and cheaper to just inform employees that they need to switch items off at the wall.couldn't they just have 1 master switch for the whole room and knock the whole lot off from there?
1 flick of a switch.. and they'd probably save a good few quid each night.
i dunno how hard this would be to install, but i'm sure it would be possible..
what would you say you done if someone asked what you do for a living?
It sounds like a good idea on paper. But you go telling someone that they need to install their Server's/networking gear in a specific area and you'll get told to take a running jump.
no-one's answering thiswhat would you say you done if someone asked what you do for a living?
if people were serious about 'saving the planet' and making things more 'green' then the servers would be on a different circuit and all PCs and stuff put on 1 circuit
i could see the amount of money you could save being a huge amount..
Electricity should be green tho, look at scotland rejecting the biggest wind farm in europe recently.no-one's answering this
if people were serious about 'saving the planet' and making things more 'green' then the servers would be on a different circuit and all PCs and stuff put on 1 circuit
i could see the amount of money you could save being a huge amount..
Its all wrong. It should just be sorted out.
As for offices turning off loads of things, it just won't happen. Maybe it should but it won't.
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Only when too much current is being drawn. Just like when a fuse blows.
Existing buildings and ones being built would need their whole power systems re-designed (even if the buildings are not finished, it would cost a lot to have everything redesigned and approved and new contracts drawn up to cover the additional cost). Future building could have it designed in from the start. It may not be a concern to businesses right now, but it will in a few years when energy costs keep going up.
And TiG is right. Yes we should reduce the amount of electricity we consume, but the ultimate solution is to produce that same electricity cleanly.
(And wind is not the answer to this. It is part of it, but not the whole story. Fusion reactors, thats what we want
could i patent the idea now?
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