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Re: [LUG] Moblin now booting in 16 seconds

 

On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:53:05 +0100
James Fidell <james@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Neil Williams wrote:
> 
> > I have a meter too but I only notice any significant issues when the
> > microwave is in use. Every other appliance rarely changes the meter by
> > more than 0.1 - often less than 0.05.
> 
> You don't have a dishwasher, washing machine or tumble drier? 

In a bachelor pad? Do you really think those get more usage than the
microwave?

> Or even
> an oven, come to that. 

Gas.

> Any decent electric oven is going to suck 3kW or
> there abouts.  (Obviously there are some strange people who prefer gas
> ovens, and I could be tempted by a gas tumble drier, but I've really
> struggled to find an intelligently designed power-conscious dishwasher
> or washing machine yet.

Even power-hungry appliances become invisible when used rarely enough.

I've a lawn-mower too but that doesn't register on the overall
electricity usage.
 
> Ah, but what you really want is all sorts of other clever stuff, too.
> Occupancy sensors

No.

>, "follow-me audio"

No, I value silence.

>, daylight-sensitive lighting

Umm, light switches?

> and
> more.  The irritating (for me) thing is that all the individual bits
> required to achieve more environmentally conscious (and, in fact, more
> generally better-controlled) power consumption in a house already exist,
> but there's no easy way to pull the whole lot together at anything
> approaching reasonable consumer-level pricing.

Well most people "pull the whole lot together" by getting up off the
sofa and pressing things with their fingers.
:-)

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