[Grassroots-l] presentation on green computing

[Yama Ploskonka]

Whatever you do or say, _please_ do not add more nonsense about the so 
called crank or yo-yo.  Our project is full of hype and often lacking 
substance (see the Lennon thread for a discussion on more of that), and 
the charging crank and yo-yo are magisterial examples of excellent TV, 
world-impacting (anywhere I go people ask me about those), but devoid of 
  respect for basic principles of science, that alas, keep us stuck here 
lower than the angels.

BTW, if you find what is the carbon footprint of an XO, I would want to 
know.  If I get my way the Bolivia deployment will be carbon-negative ASAP.

I did a little bit on solar in my day, see the wiki for XO_Solar. AFAIK 
it has the only numbers backed up by actual research on this subject 
(you might find around official info which comes from computer simulations)
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Solar

Yama


Marten Vijn wrote:
> Hi 
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> I am looking for information to give an presentation about
> green computing. I am asked to talk about XO and OLPC.
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> http://www.nluug.nl/events/20090122groen/index.html
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> It will be a 30 min talk, for mainly unix admin and "greenish" people.
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> Layout of my talk:
> - background OLPC
> - tech details XO
> - usage resources:
>  - electricity
>  - natural resources
>  - network / Internet
> - reuse natural resources
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> - human resources
>   - repairing centers
>   - support teams
>   - packing and distributions
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> I am looking for schema's:
> - schema's power usase per part in the XO 
> - schema's power usage compared with EEE, standard laptops, standart
> desktops
> - clear images / foto's
> - links with background information
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> Resources with an open license do have prevalence!
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> English slides + research notes will be online in a free accessible
> format:
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> http://martenvijn.nl/svn/olpc/greencomputing/
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> thanks,
> Marten
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