Re: Modern Home Servers - Power Savings

["Simon Coates" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What a lot of people seem to forget when looking at energy savings of
an 'i=
nefficient' appliance is that the by-product is heat.  This is usable heat
=
for most of the time, and not wasted energy.  Heating in this country
needs=
to be on for about 9 months of the year.
Typical example is the energy rating of tumble dryers.  Ones that expel
hot=
moist air to the outside world are given a better rating than condensing d=
ryers because they dry faster - but with condensing dryers no energy is
los=
t - it 'stays' in the house.  Only time you wouldn't save is when the
heati=
ng doesn't need to be on in summer - but then washing should be hung
outsid=
e anyway.
I'm a fan of heat recovery systems - not enough emphasis is given to this
s=
ubject.  If all UK kitchen and bathroom extractors were replaced with
small=
self contained heat recovery extractors the energy saving in the cold mont=
hs would be the equivalent of a typical UK power station capacity.

Regards

Simon



----- Original Message -----=20
From: Mark McCall=20
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx=20
Sent: 23 April 2008 11:44
Subject: [ukha_d] Modern Home Servers - Power Savings


The Windows Home Server Team Blog has an interesting piece on the running
costs of a modern home server versus a regular PC. They found the annual
running costs to be around =A325 versus =A3295............

.......When most other energy saving technologies Solar/Wind/HeatPump etc
still appear to have huge payback times, it seems you really could benefi=
t
financially from buying a new home server. For example in the best power
saving senario the Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo Home Server 1500 at around =A34=
00
could be considered to have been "free" in under 18 months...

http://tinyurl.com/5t5hg8

M.



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