Fast processors and video cards consume gobs of power and
produce tons of heat, so mobile systems have to cut back on performance while packing on the pounds.
Not exact matches
Many farmshave already developed methods
of converting the billions
of tons of animal waste
produced each year intomethane for electrical and
heat energy; beginning in March, 1,200 households inCalifornia will be powered by cow manure.
In the United States, the burning
of fossil fuels to make electricity is the largest source
of heat - trapping pollution,
producing about two billion
tons of CO2 every year.
Even if poor and rich countries agree, magically, to meet in the middle — at, say, 10
tons of carbon dioxide per person per year (about Europe's emissions rate)-- that
produces a world well on the way to centuries
of warming and coastal retreats, even at the low end
of estimates
of carbon dioxide's
heat - trapping power.
According to NComputing, the access devices eliminate the need for air conditioning when there is a room full
of the devices, since they create little
heat,
produce significantly less e-waste at the end
of their extra long lifetimes, and according to their calculations, the company's current user base is right now saving 144 million kWh
of electricity annually, 17,700 metric
tons of coal, 112,300 metric
tons of CO2, and about 8,100 metric
tons of e-waste.
The sun is the primary source
of heat on Earth (you don't say) and humans are not the primary source
of CO2 on Earth, contributing only 7 billion
tons of industrial carbon dioxide compared with natural sources that
produce 200 billion
tons annually.
While this video shows the staggering size
of 54 million metric
tons of carbon, it still can't show how much carbon we really
produce as a by
heating our homes.
Electrifying everything
produces an enormous drop in projected demand, since the energy - to - work conversion
of electric motors is much more efficient than combustion motors, which lose a
ton of energy to
heat.
From the Yazaki Energy Systems, Inc. web site (Plano Texas, USA) Yazaki water fired SINGLE - EFFECT chillers or chiller - heaters have cooling capacities
of 10, 20 and 30
tons of refrigeration and
produce chilled water for cooling or hot water for
heating in comfort air conditioning applications.
In the United States, the burning
of fossil fuels to make electricity is the largest source
of heat - trapping pollution,
producing about two billion
tons of CO2 every year.