http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=12639 Luke Ford talks about his childhood while driving through Big Sur, Nov. 9, 2009 with a friend. Luke is accused of bad driving, immaturity, recklessness.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Elephant Seals - Driving Through Big Sur To Monterey III
http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=12639 Luke Ford talks about his childhood while driving through Big Sur, Nov. 9, 2009 with a friend. Luke is accused of bad driving, immaturity, recklessness.
Elephant Seals - Driving Through Big Sur To Monterey
http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=12639 Luke Ford talks about his childhood while driving through Big Sur, Nov. 9, 2009 with a friend. Luke is accused of bad driving, immaturity, recklessness.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Driving Through Big Sur To Monterey II
http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=12639 Luke Ford talks about his childhood while driving through Big Sur, Nov. 9, 2009 with a friend. Luke talks about his SDA childhood, psychology, Alexander Technique.
Driving Through Big Sur To Monterey
http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=12639 Luke Ford talks about his childhood while driving through Big Sur, Nov. 9, 2009 with a friend. Luke is accused of bad driving, immaturity, recklessness.
Driving Through Big Sur II
http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=12639 Luke Ford talks about his childhood while driving through Big Sur, Nov. 9, 2009 with a friend. Luke is into the power of now, thinking of writing a book.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
The Standby Feature
From the WSJ:
Created to help the world's couch potatoes turn the tube on and off without having to make the arduous 2-meter journey to the TV set, the standby feature has spread to virtually every appliance in the home and office. Microwave ovens, cellphone chargers, DVD players, computer monitors and printers all silently consume power when they aren't in use.
The cumulative result is huge. A study by the European Commission found that Europeans waste €7 billion ($9 billion) a year paying for appliances in standby mode, which account for about 10% of total energy use. The drain can be higher. A study by the University of California, Berkeley, found that such snoozing machines consume as much as 26% of electricity used in gadget-stuffed homes in California.
Machines on standby are responsible for about 1% of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions, according to the International Energy Agency.
Governments have tried advertising campaigns to coax their citizens into unplugging cellphone chargers and turning off their TV sets at night, to little effect. Many new devices, such as Nintendo's Wii game console, lack an off switch. Users must unplug the devices to stop them from consuming power.
Created to help the world's couch potatoes turn the tube on and off without having to make the arduous 2-meter journey to the TV set, the standby feature has spread to virtually every appliance in the home and office. Microwave ovens, cellphone chargers, DVD players, computer monitors and printers all silently consume power when they aren't in use.
The cumulative result is huge. A study by the European Commission found that Europeans waste €7 billion ($9 billion) a year paying for appliances in standby mode, which account for about 10% of total energy use. The drain can be higher. A study by the University of California, Berkeley, found that such snoozing machines consume as much as 26% of electricity used in gadget-stuffed homes in California.
Machines on standby are responsible for about 1% of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions, according to the International Energy Agency.
Governments have tried advertising campaigns to coax their citizens into unplugging cellphone chargers and turning off their TV sets at night, to little effect. Many new devices, such as Nintendo's Wii game console, lack an off switch. Users must unplug the devices to stop them from consuming power.
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