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Could open source technologies help us solve climate change?
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| The growth of the internet, with all the
| associated changes it has brought to our lives,
| has been driven in large part by freely
| available, non-proprietary technology. The
| ethos of sharing, formalised by carefully
| worded open source licenses, has allowed inter-
| connectedness to flourish in ways that we once
| never dreamed of. Could adopting a similar
| approach for carbon-mitigating technologies
| have the same effect in tackling climate
| change?
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http://www.theecologist.org/trial_investigations/477823/could_open_source_technologies_help_us_solve_climate_change.html
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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