[Foundation-l] Wikimedia and Environment

[Teofilo]

2009/12/13, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com>:
> I don't think that's a practical solution. It's not because they need
> to be cooled that computers cost so much energy - rather the opposite:
> they use much energy, and because energy cannot be created or
> destroyed, this energy has to go out some way - and that way is heat.

In cold countries, energy can have two lives : a first life making
calculations in a computer, or transforming matter (ore into metal,
trees into books), and a second life heating homes.

But the best is to use no energy at all : see the OLPC project in
Afghanistan (A computer with pedals, like the sewing machines of our
great-great-great-grand-mothers) (1)

(1) http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/afghanistan/updates_from_olpc_afghanistan_1.html