Herbert Graf <mailinglist3 <at> farcite.net> writes:

> > What you are saying is finally -all energy- entering a system somehow
> > turns into heat without loss.(Lol - Actually,heat itself is loss).

Heat is gain in winter ... The computer room is just a large space heater.

> Yup, for a computer system, except whatever is emitted through light or
> other RF wavelengths (radiant heat being just a band of wavelengths of
> EM radiation), or electrical currents (very small, things like ethernet
> connections).

Only light that finds its way out of a window counts ... all the rest is turned
into heat in the room.
 
> > I wish this was true because from the bill point of view, this
> > approach indicates that all processes done by CPU,HDD,Optical Drives
> > etc. is free of charge.

Yes, the computer bill (for rack rentals etc) is mostly an electricity + cooling
+ network cost (bandwidth) bill. In a way ethernet bits are an extremely
expensive kind of electricity ;-) Since cooling can be expressed in terms of
efficiency as electrical power you can actually say something like X watts of
computer actually cost 2.5*X watts (including A/C cooling).

Peter

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