The London Summit must agree that investment in low-emissions technology and infrastructure must be integral to government recovery packages in order to create jobs, foster innovation, and achieve energy security through the 21st century. Governments should individually implement and document their efforts in this regard.
see Their letter to G20 leaders.
If that is not a promotion of GNU/Linux on thin clients, I do not know what would be more clear. Energy produced by fossil fuels runs many PCs. If we replace the PCs with terminal servers and thin clients we can save a lot of power consumption:
- typical thick client consumes about 100 watts apart from the monitor, keyboard and mouse
- typical thin client can be 20 watts or less
- the difference is about 80 watts saved per conversion to thin client, perhaps 75 watts because we need a terminal server which runs a bunch of thin clients
- 75 watts saved times 1000 million PCs is 75 gigawatts
We can also save on production/waste costs because thin clients can last several times longer than most PCs.
On top of that we get ease of management and better performance with shared memory and file caching, no downside except video, which is why we can still have a few thick clients or televisions.
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