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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2018-01-08 kl. 21:05, skrev chrisv:
> 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.
> 

With “our” I guess you are talking of the world at large, right? How
electricity is produced is highly depending on where you live. But, of
course, the electricity generation must also switch to renewable sources.
There is no difference in electricity generation from driving combustion
engines in that regard. It has both to minimize the use of fossil fuels.

But there are also a lot of other things that has to be done. Such us
moving the real short distances work travels to cycling, where that
works, or to community transportation. And of course a continued move
of the car fleet to smaller and less gasoline hungry models. The most
environment friendly mile is the mile that was never travelled.