| 2007-03-25 11:02:03
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| 11:02:03 | WW | yup |
| 11:02:11 | WW | * WW noted that within just 10 minutes of signing on to SecondLife and doing nothing but sitting on the couch in the salon, that raised the iMac's CPU temp 10 degrees Celsius (35 to 45) and the GPU Diode temp 15 degrees Celsius (50 to 65). That's right at 30% on both temps. Frame rate running around 26 fps. |
| 11:02:58 | WW | just FYI |
| 11:03:37 | WW | so SL has a considerable carbon footprint |
| 11:03:46 | Sat | Sat (~Sat@[death to spam].204.10.252.2) has quit IRC [Quit: Leaving] |
| 11:03:58 | Lucifer | I don't see you in SL |
| 11:04:10 | WW | that was a few days ago |
| 11:04:13 | Lucifer | ah |
| 11:04:23 | WW | I'm being "green" today ;) |
| 11:04:27 | Lucifer | Why has teh Sat forsaken us? |
| 11:04:52 | WW | prolly tech probs |
| 11:05:03 | Lucifer | irvken says he left SL because of an article he read about the carbon footprint of avatars |
| 11:05:12 | WW | he usually doesn't leave like that if he can help it |
| 11:05:41 | WW | Well, my little experiment proves it to be true |
| 11:05:50 | Lucifer | but there are several problems with irvken's reasoning |
| 11:06:01 | WW | what's that |
| 11:06:34 | Lucifer | First, the article made an error in the calculation |
| 11:07:02 | Lucifer | so the avatars use 4X less energy than it said |
| 11:07:06 | Lucifer | on the server side |
| 11:07:23 | Lucifer | Second, if you don't log into SL you don't save any energy |
| 11:07:47 | Lucifer | Thirdly, almost the whole carbon footprint is on the client side |
| 11:07:59 | WW | yep |
| 11:08:04 | Lucifer | So if irvken wants to save energy he should turn off his computer, not avoid SL |
| 11:09:43 | WW | that would help, but logging in to SL does cause a net increase in energy consumption even versus not logging and leaving your pc on. |
| 11:10:32 | Lucifer | OK, 30% if you were logged into SL 24/7 |
| 11:10:53 | Lucifer | but more likely less than 2% |
| 11:11:09 | WW | right. and since I never turn my pc's off, then me bad ;) |
| 11:12:55 | WW | I'm convinced the off-on cycling of pc's reduces their life substantially.. They like to be left on.....it's true for any solid-state device |
| 11:14:00 | WW | even hard-drives and power supplies that have moving parts last longer if left on I believe |
| 11:14:08 | WW | there's that damn word again ;) |
