dna transcription is a computation? bah. any computer uses about 10% of its capital cost in power annually. is that really a lot? sure, if you run it for 10

dna transcription is a computation? bah. any computer uses about 10% of its capital cost in power annually. is that really a lot? sure, if you run it for 10 years, but the real sin there is running such an inefficient computer in year 9. running it for 3 years is a small deal. sure, we pay a high power cost for reliable, deterministic, digital and synchronous computation. but we designed it that way, for that reason. we don't want unreliable or non-deterministic or approximate or whenever computation. no question that some practices waste power. but we're doing just fine: power per computation (and probably more importantly, for communicating with memory and other systems) is coming down fast. move along, usual moore's law-like behavior, less to see each year...