[mythtv-users] [Slightly OT] solar power for all our gadgets

[Francesco Peeters]

Paul Gardiner wrote:
> Simon is completely correct in what he is saying.
>
> <SNIP>

> The inefficiency is at the power station
> and is an unavoidable consequence of another physical law to do with
> entropy. You can't generate oredered energy (electricity) from
> disordered energy (heat) without a huge proportion ending up in the
> outside as heat, where it is of no use. Use of gas doesn't involve
> that inefficiency (hmmm, as far as I know). So, if your bulb heats
> the room a bit, and your gas central heating cuts back in response,
> you are trading inefficient heating for efficient heating, which
> isn't so good.
>
> Cheers,
>     Paul.

I enjoy this off-topic discussion a lot more than many others, but in
the end, some of us do not have a choice... Incandescents will be
forbidden here as of 2010... Not that there is a viable alternative for
all situations yet, but that has never stopped a government before!


--FP