Re: PC Power Usage
- From: Jock. <real_classs_a2003@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:46:54 +0000
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 17:38:44 +0000 (UTC), "Philip Herlihy"
<foof8501@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Dr John Stockton" <jrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> JRS: In article <1125141486.963545.254070@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> , dated Sat, 27 Aug 2005 04:18:06, seen in news:uk.comp.misc, Jack Ouzzi
> <mick.sturbes@xxxxxxxxx> posted :
>>I read somewhere that yer average PC working away consume roughly 90
>>watts of power per hour.
>
> Anyone who considers power to be "watts per hour" is incompetent.
Power is W = V * I (rms).
>Why not just offer the correction instead of disparaging the poster?
People who top-post are incompetent as well. :o)
90 Watt hours then, or around a tenth of a kWh, a tenth of
a unit per hour.
You could run it for over 10 hours for the price of a unit
of electricity, whatever that is nowadays.
[You know V is 230V, now calculate the current, I].
Aren't we having fun?
Jock.
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