How many peeps care about power consuption?

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Its going to be hard for us yanks to do this you know. 3 generations of cheap, unlimited power usage. Thats a tough track record to just put aside, but it can be done. Just not until they make the ultimate cpu and gpu, then itll be ok heheh
 
Yes, I agree, one with low power usage. I'm getting bored anyways so I'm gonna play Diablo 2 now... Can we all agree that Macgirlfriend's being a jerk tho...
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Playing compuer games?!?!? OMG! STOP WASTING ENERGY! you should be meditating instead! c'mon...
 
Ummm.....
Antarctica gets tons of sunlight.
It just gets it all in half a year.

Besides, current solar panels are not a really good alternative.
The current types are supposed to have one of the most toxic manufacturing processes of anything ever made.
 
Well the polar ice caps ARE melting faster than my tofu ice cream...
Not to mention that the current process involves use of fossil fuels
Edit: I don't mean tofu ice-cream is made from fossil fuels tho...
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OMG you aren't even 14 years old!
 
I wonder how the wooly mamouth got all the way up to siberia, and got stuck in the perma frost? Maybe it was warmer then? Using less energy is a good idead, but Im not buying this global warning crap. The wooly mamoth primarily lived in the center of the US, no wheres near that far north. Maybe back then, the caveman went crazy having just discovered fire? Then everything froze. I wonder which is more natural? The frozen permafrost or temps like middle america in siberia?
 
"That, my friend still would use energy, walk everywhere like me (haven't been in a car for 2 years)"

Well you have to admire that. I don't know how old you are amdfangirl but I've become reliant on my car. I should use public transport more and I might actually look into it

You know it is possible to live in a near perfect world, if we had sustainable energy for example and used effecient low powered devices then we could probably just rely on solar and wind power, maybe wave power too which is very interesting.
 
I don't care what you say about it, TOFU is NASTY....and TOFU ice cream sounds just sick and wrong !

My personal rant...stop calling it soy MILK because it is just soy flour and water !
 


Ya know, it's kinda funny.
A few months after I moved to Germany, I had a friend tell me about why they are raising the prices for electricity here. It appars so little is used here they were loosing cash on the volume. Had to adjust the prices up to make up for the difference. Just sayin...

Yeah, Soy is alright.
The choclate soy milk tastes almost the same as the regular stuff.
Used to have a place in Michigan that would sell rosted Soy nuts. They taste prety good when they have some flavor on them. Just have to watch how many you eat. Kinda like reverse Olestra :??:
 
I don’t care about power consumption. I am American! Why do we have to worry about it? Europe and China pollute more then we do? Why do we get nailed for not being "Green" when neither of those two has as tough regulations as we do?



macgirlfriend: You are a sad product of false advertising.
 
Mhm sad alright. Capatalists use China and it's people for dirt cheap products and then rip off the people in the western world with 10,000% plus markups. They don't contribute solutions to global warming, equality or humanity, simply report massive annual profits so the greedy executives can get a nice fat bonus!! So many good technologies are held from us just so profits can go streaming into their accounts. I sometimes wonder if the world isn't better off with less convenience, we'd all be slimmer and maybe actually care about each other. When you think about it, alot of people don't drive their cars at max speed or use their computers at max speed or run 5km a day in their $200 sneakers, I mean what's the point for alot of it? Is making people reclusive and fat and poor really progress? Lets not even get started with junk food.....
 
If you hate it so much try almond or rice milk. Ever had Santnitruim tofu sausages (remember I'm a fruitarain, so no hurting plants for food)
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Well apples are tree ovaries and your eating soy..so your eating the soy plants babies 😛

On topic, yeah..saving energy is great, but if we all saved as much as we could, we'd be living in mud huts and making babies for entertainment (sex). So should we just sit around throwing dirt all day just for the sake of being able to do it for more generations, or do we advance ?

There is a line in there somewhere, a point of diminishing returns; the problem is that line is an arbitrary value and different for different groups of people. Personally, if I had a bunch of naked women, I' wouldn't need electricity at all ! However, women are most attracted to people that brush their teeth and bathe, and the supporting tooth brush infrastructure is predicated on the evils of synthetics plastics and all that modern baggage !
 
If these good technologies were so good, then theyd sell like free beer. Cmon, its always been this way. Communistic countries have always had to deal with capitalists because they never had enough for themselves. Before the pcb boards, what? Starvation? Thats chinas fault for allowing such things being done improperly. Dont blame someone else for their own inadequacies. You think people in China have other options? You have to ask yourself why they dont. And you have to ask why does China allow it?
 
You forget sex takes energy then we have to eat to be able to make up the lost energy which means more food has to grow which in turn requires another type of energy...
 
I dunno. Why should I worry about the measley few cents a day it costs to run my PC, when I see things like this for instance. In southern California where there is never any inclement weather, why does everyone drive huge 4 wheel drive SUV's? I hope that everyone (which is a LOT of people) are really enjoying spending $80+ to fill up, and then run 50 miles a day back forth to work on a perfectly flat, smooth 90 degree sunny freeway.
 
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