Do you take into account the energy consumption of the water treatment plant and active filtering to manufacture chips such as CPUs? How much water needs to be pumped through such a system to get the water pure enough?
Do you take into account the energy consumption of the air purification system and active filtering to manufacture chips such as CPUs? How much air needs to be pumped through such a system to get air pure enough?
Do you take into account the energy consumption of the silicon purification plant and active filtering to manufacture chips such as CPUs? How much silicon must be pumped through such a system to get the silicon pure enough?
Mind you, we have only talked about the basic blocks.
Any idea how much energy it costs to set up a production line for CPUs? How much do these consume when production is in progress? How much energy is used for testing CPUs to classify them into i3, i5, i7 and i9 classes?
Compare that consumption to the actual consumption of a somewhat older CPU and you will find out that the efficiency of a new CPU is quite disappointing.
Anyway, as an end user you don’t see that on your electricity bill, so these things don’t exist. However, Mother Nature does experience the damage.
Anyway, you’re talking about making money with a computer. Do you also take into account that a money-making task takes time? And I don’t just mean time to perform the task, but time must also be spent re-tuning a new computer by a person, because the task results must remain as reliable with the new hardware as with the old.
You would think that is a certainty. The computer manufacturers also sell it that way. But once you have tried and tested it, you will discover that this is often not the case.
So the adjustment takes the time of a highly paid person, who could have earned more money at that time by adding more tasks/optimizing tasks on that slightly older computer.
If you have ever worked with gas suppliers, you would have discovered this long ago. That old “garbage” in your eyes, it has already been adjusted in such a way that one can trust that the right amount of gas is supplied for the right amount (the energy value of gas depends on a lot of variables). Pumping gas through houses costs money, but the energy value is of enormous importance for the final bill. The less time that needs to be spent on this, the cheaper it is for the gas supplier. Significantly cheaper even. Those few extra uses of that older computer? That means even less than a rounding error in the overall picture.
The reasoning behind your focus on frugality is something the British have an excellent saying for: “Penny wise, Pound foolish”.
And this was just one example, there are many more.
2024-04-03 13:10:45
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