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On 12/02/07, Peter Church <peter.church at church-consultancy.co.uk> wrote:
> That's a very small tip of an extremely big iceberg why not ask the
> question using the open government initiative and see what the averaged
> figures are...

OK - so you have some clue. Fair enought

> I don't mind changing my lifestyle but I will be damned if I'm going to
> change for NO effect on the problem I want to solve. While pin-heads
> claim to save the planet on deception.

We weren't talking about CO2 emissions. This plan was trying to
alleviate traffic congestion, something that turning servers off won't
do a thing to solve.

> The Gartner Group estimate that 50% of ALL IT SPEND WITHIN A DECADE will
> be on power consumption if computers do not start to do more work per
> watt of power consumed...

Stick a grid computer node in each of the cars stuck in traffic and
use the energy from the ticking-over engine ;)

Tim