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

[Rene Lamontagne]

On 01/08/2018 2:05 PM, chrisv wrote:
> 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.
> 


Not in Manitoba, Canada

Rene