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Re: jbog post# 78539

Wednesday, 05/27/2009 10:58:48 PM

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:58:48 PM

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OT: energy consumption. While white paint might help, the environmental costs for using the computer is great and going to get greater. Witness the cost of performing a google search:

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5489134.ece

I have been "playing" with the new Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine. My simple computations are likely to leave a small footprint, but I'm betting that there will be some pretty smart grad students who will be sucking a whole lot of energy out of the grid to perform some in depth computations for free using this site. Check it out:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

regards,

aj
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