[Grassroots-l] presentation on green computing

[Marten Vijn]

On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 09:51 -0600, Yama Ploskonka wrote:
> Whatever you do or say, _please_ do not add more nonsense about the so 
> called crank or yo-yo.  

I will name these as "nice for PR" but not true :)

> Our project is full of hype and often lacking 
> substance (see the Lennon thread for a discussion on more of that),

Well let's not waste time on dead people. :)

>  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.

May it was not clear, i am looking for facts and data sheets (not
stories)

> 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.

Yes that would be nice, especially in comparison with:
- EEE
- classmate
- standard laptops
- standard workstations
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> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Solar

ah nice! add to my list


thanks Marten

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> Yama
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> 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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