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Comments on: IT shouldn't cop all the blame for wrecking environment

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Posted Monday 10th September 2007 11:34 GMT

no no what we really need is the latest greatest supercomputer sucking hundreds of watts to run the latest greatest desktop eye candy and tasks of computational complexity easily solved by a typewriter.

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Posted Tuesday 11th September 2007 01:04 GMT

Did you by any chance check out the conversion factor of Horsepower to Watts when you got in your SUV this morning?

As I see it 1 KW = 1.34 horsepower.

Hmmmmm, let me see how your 250 bhp SUV works out the other way ;)

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