Kat Walsh wrote:
We are currently motivated to conserve energy simply
because it costs
less if we are efficient, and certainly I think we should take care
not to be wasteful!
There are a couple of important differences between electricity pricing
and ecological cost:
1. electricity at knams and yaseo is donated
2. electricity at pmtpa is charged by peak power usage rather than by
energy usage
Thus we waste energy in two ways:
1. we keep more servers switched on at knams and yaseo than we need
2. we make no effort to conserve power during off-peak times, beyond what
the servers do by default
-- Tim Starling