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As Migu pointed out to me - if 2 million families in Sweden in Finland simultaneously switch on their Plasma TVs to watch an ice-hockey game, it takes the entire output of one nuclear reactor.

What?

You pointed it out, I just did the math.

Economics is politics by other means

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Apr 13th, 2011 at 09:15:17 AM EST
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hehe (4.00 / 4)

You pointed it out, I just did the math.

Different people have different views on which bit is the hardest...

Wind power

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Apr 13th, 2011 at 09:21:42 AM EST
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It's complicated...

So with load balancing, 12 million TVs consume the power output of a nuclear reactor.
However, most people watch TV at the same times, so ... 2 million TVs, simultaneously on, consume the power of your reactor. A big Sweden/Finland hockey match, for instance?

Economics is politics by other means

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Apr 13th, 2011 at 09:23:51 AM EST
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Re: hehe (none / 0)

Maybe outlawing ice hockey is the answer.

by Andhakari on Wed Apr 13th, 2011 at 01:24:14 PM EST
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It's a well-known medical fact that removing symptoms does not cure the disease ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Apr 13th, 2011 at 01:31:05 PM EST
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And this is the entire problem with VMware View, if you want to know the IT view of the world...

by asdf on Wed Apr 13th, 2011 at 04:41:57 PM EST
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