On Apr 6, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Reiner Hartenstein wrote: > > > Dear friends, > > Energy cost will massively grow within this and next decade because of > decreasing oil and gas supply and rapidly growing electricity demand. > For the time from 2008 until 2030 the electricity comsumption growth > of all our ICT infrastructures has been predicted by a factor of 30 > --- if current trends continue. Also the price per kWh will > probably grow > by another factor, so that the electricity cost to run our ICT > infrastructures > may grow by a factor of 100 or even more during this period of time. > > We need your ideas on how to cope with this challenge by current > trends.
Since when do computers run on oil or gas? I thought they ran on electricity mainly produced by coals and nuclear centrals. Why would that go up in price? If you're speaking about cars and especially trucks - that's another discussion of course. > > These problems are also subject of PATMOS 2013: http://fpl.org/CFP7/ > > Best regards, > Reiner Hartenstein > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin > Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
