[Info-vax] Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

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Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:

>>> Think about this.  That waste heat wasn't free.  It's unused energy. That 
>>> means you've had to put much more potential into the gasoline engine to 
>>> get what you need.  With electric, less energy is required. Of course, 
>>> the heat is nice when it's cold.  Still, from an energy perspective, the 
>>> gasoline engine is rather wasteful.
>> 
>> Try tracing the power from the battery in the car all the way back
>> to it's origination.  Take all the "efficiencies" into consideration.
>> Now tell me how wasteful the gasoline engine really is.
>
>The problem is not efficient of the engine is as such. The problem is
>that it in most cases is burning fosile fules and releasing CO2 that
>was "in the loop" millions of years ago.

Yet another subject shift.

Much of our electricity comes from burning coal or natural gas, BTW.

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