On  3 Sep 97 at 11:01, Shane Nelson wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
>
> >
> > Why do you care so much about efficiency if you are going to feed it
> > from mains voltage anyway?
> >
> >
> > Joost
> >
>
> Maybe he realizes that the mains lines are often supplied by
> burning fossil fuels and by making this small additional
> effort in his design he'll be able to reduce the amount of
> fossil fuels burnt each day? :)

Life doesn't work out like that - witness computing power.  You'd
expect programs to get faster.  No.  They get more complex instead.
(hi Bill)
Cars are another instance.
MikeS
<mikesmith_oz@relaymail.net>