Re: Shut down or leave on?

["G.W. Haywood" <ged@jubileegroup.co.uk>]

Hi there,

On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 Cousin Stanley wrote:

> > My previous server used 100 Watts on average.
> >
> > If left on 24/7, that's 61,320 hours a year,
> > or 6,132,000 Watt-hours or 6,132 kWh.
> > ....
>
>   The number of hours per year that you used
>   in your calculation seems a bit high ....
>
>       hours_per_day  = 24
>       days_per_year  = 366
>       hours_per_year = hours_per_day * days_per_year
>       print '\n   ' , hours_per_year
>       8784

That's still a little bit high, actually:

~$> echo "24 * 365.25" | bc
8766.00

but I only did this to illustrate the more compact use of some system
tools, in this case 'echo', 'bc' and a pipe. :)

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73,
Ged.