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Your argument makes no sense because it is self defeating. The point of increasing the price of electricity is to increase the incentive to use less of it. How
by lathiat 8y ago
Your argument makes no sense because it is self defeating. The point of increasing the price of electricity is to increase the incentive to use less of it.
How would we use less of it? Precisely by actions such as development time spent on tasks to reduce energy usage.. such as improving the CPU idle states (among many, many other such options).
- Double_a_92 8y agoThe increased cost makes it more impactful for the companies, even if they don't care about the enviroment. So they actually might pay the engineers to do something about it.
- foobarchu 8y agoWhat i'm getting here is that you think the author should stop working on this research, because if he doesn't then maybe companies will start funding him so he can...do this exact research? Science shouldn't grind to a halt just because not doing it might increase funding.
- Double_a_92 8y agoNo, more of the opposite. Companies should support him and others researchers because it's in their own interest.
- maxlybbert 8y agoI don’t see how that’s self defeating. But I understood the comment to be “if electricity cost more, people and companies would be more diligent in turning off lights when they aren’t needed, setting the thermostat to use less electricity, and doing other simple things to save electricity and money.” It wasn’t a question of whether the kernel can do a good job automatically, but whether there is low hanging fruit that we’re currently ignoring.