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Why Open Source and Open Standards are Essential to Combat
Disastrous Global Climate Change
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| We have to speed up energy innovation to the
| pace demonstrated in the growth of the
| Internet if we are to prevent irreversible
| climate disruptions that will irreparably harm
| the planet for our children and all those that
| follow. The scale and speed of change required
| to ward off disaster cannot be achieved using
| conventional models. We need to constantly
| compress seven years of innovation into one â
| the pace described as innovating on âInternet
| timeâ.
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| This requires government policy action now to
| drive the adoption of open source methods, and
| open standards for us to move quickly enough
| to ward off this crisis. These open models
| have proved themselves in creating the
| Internet and enabling the extraordinary pace
| of business and societal innovation around it.
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http://opensource.com/government/10/2/why-open-source-and-open-standards-are-essential-combat-disastrous-global-climate-ch
Recent:
Copenhagen Climate Council Promotes GNU/Linux on Thin Clients
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| If that is not a promotion of GNU/Linux on
| thin clients, I do not know what would be more
| clear. Energy produced by fossil fuels runs
| many PCs. If we replace the PCs with terminal
| servers and thin clients we can save a lot of
| power consumption:
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| * typical thick client consumes about 100
| watts apart from the monitor, keyboard and
| mouse
| * typical thin client can be 20 watts or
| less
| * the difference is about 80 watts saved
| per conversion to thin client, perhaps 75
| watts because we need a terminal server
| which runs a bunch of thin clients
| * 75 watts saved times 1000 million PCs is
| 75 gigawatts
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/01/31/copenhagen-climate-council-promotes-gnulinux-on-thin-clients/
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