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GNOME 3.4 releasedGNOME 3.4 releasedPosted Mar 28, 2012 21:14 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: GNOME 3.4 released by spaetz Parent article: GNOME 3.4 released Come on, €40/year is not much. Now, those 127 kwh become 67 kg of CO2 a year. If GNOME shell became really popular and was used by, say, 200 million users with your same habits, that would be about 25 GWh/year, or 13 million metric tons of CO2 delivered to the atmosphere. I have not got to converting that to degrees of global heating but it does not look good. News flash! GNOME shell does not scale!
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GNOME 3.4 released Posted Mar 29, 2012 16:14 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link] Assuming we are on the IPCC's A1F scenario (which seems easy day terrifyingly more like an idealistic of what could have been rather than a doomsday scenario), then the global mean temperature anomaly in 2300 is increased by much less than 1 * 10^-5 degrees C (the margin of error of my model). So we can fortunately let GNOME 3 off the hook for any noticeable damage to the planet. :) Source: the climate model used in Fate of the World, adapted from work performed by Dr. Myles Allen [Allen, M. R. et al (2009) Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne, Nature, 458:1163-1166]
GNOME 3.4 released Posted Mar 29, 2012 20:26 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Thanks for the detailed computations.News flash! GNOME shell is not dangerous to the planet, after all! New data confirms that computer suspend is harmless to the planet (but might be relevant to your pocket), page 5.
GNOME 3.4 released Posted Mar 29, 2012 21:44 UTC (Thu) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]
Sure, you can always say that the atmosphere or climate won't change, but that won't magic up the power generation capacity to let everyone have their computers on suspend because the shutdown option is non-discoverable. Of course, when the battery runs out during one of the frequent black-outs, the computer will shut down the natural way, so maybe there is method to the madness after all.
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