Internet 'rationing' needed as UK consuming at least 8 per cent of Britain's power ou (1 Viewer)

[Rx_]

Internet:
A run-away power consuming hog should be rationed?
An outlandish statement since it saves more than it consumes?
Just a new justification for tax?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sci...-needed-as-UK-cannot-keep-up-with-demand.html

The Internet is already consuming at least 8 per cent of Britain's power output, equivalent to the output of three nuclear power stations, and demand is soaring
Internet access may soon need to be rationed or restricted because the UK’s power supply
The Internet is already consuming at least 8 per cent of Britain’s power output, with the energy demand from data transmission and storage as well as smartphones, laptops and televisions. Demand doubles every four years, according to one estimate.
“We cannot make all that extra power, so we will have to restrict or reduce access, perhaps by metering consumers so they pay for what they use."

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Just great! As an American, whenI flew to London and took a hot shower in the hotel after landing, the staff informed me that I personally used up all of the hot water allocation for the entire Iles for three months.

In the US, we just make more energy. Is rationing really the answer?
Will the Access-Programmers site be limited to one question / anser a day?

Is the London Telegraph on target with this story? Or, as the name implies, are we going back to the Telegraph? Please Moris me your answer:
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[Uncle Gizmo]

I reckon this is Just BT scaremongering so they can make more money out of Internet access!

 

[Rx_]

Thanks for your short "energy saving" response!

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

Your cryptic reply made me consider, I am actually using my mobile phone to write this. Hence I am saving a lot of energy because besides being led in bed, I am also not using my PC. I wonder if they would need to take the move to mobile phones into account?

Definitely serious energy saving will be had as people spend more time working from their phones instead of a PC.

 

[scott-atkinson]

6% of that Power Usage is looking for Porn, and another 1% viewing funny Cat videos on You Tube...

 

[AnthonyGerrard]

6% of that Power Usage is looking for Porn, and another 1% viewing funny Cat videos on You Tube...

6% , I don't last that long.

 

[Bladerunner]

6% of that Power Usage is looking for Porn, and another 1% viewing funny Cat videos on You Tube...

NO, you don't have porn over there do you ?????????????

Blade
lol

 

[AnthonyGerrard]

Can't see the energy being a problem - usage wont increase that much any further in terms of devices, or if it does it will be replacing things like DVD players, HDs, TVs etc, Tablets etc

Electricity consumption for the last 10 years has been stagnant or falling in the UK.

 

[scott-atkinson]

NO, you don't have porn over there do you ?????????????

Blade
lol

It's your biggest Trade Export

 

[Rx_]

Internet is increasing for streaming US Hollywood content instead of BBC sit-coms?
Isn't there a TV broadcast tax and raido tax there? Or perhaps that is so 1960's?

I have Comcast cable. But, I still have to augment the content of 200 channels of nothing to watch with HBO Go, Netflix and some other services that might be sketchy. My "smart HD" tv became a huge internet user.

I was so concerned about the energy used, I invested in drilling an oil well.
However, my new 70" HD OLED 240hz 3D Smart TV uses 1/10 of the power of my first 33" rear projector 10 HD TV. That old one used 40 W just to keep the projector tube on standby.

But, all of that didn't increase the quality of the content. Just makes the bad content "bigger and clearer"

 

[AnthonyGerrard]

Internet is increasing for streaming US Hollywood content instead of BBC sit-coms?
Isn't there a TV broadcast tax and raido tax there? Or perhaps that is so 1960's?

[\QUOTE]

No its to watch BBC online for free, or ITV, or CH4 etc also yes Netflicks for the usual fee.

To watch 'live' broadcast TV you need a licence - not for online as on demand.


The license means we have BBC , ad free quality TV - or as good as it get anyhow. Its also free from self serving aussie billionaires colouring our news/information.

 

[Rx_]

Yeah, those Aussie's took over our newspapers.
Now newspapers have stories. They just lacks any actual journalism.

Come to think of it, the stuff they call TV News is nothing but one shameless plug after another. Unlike the pretend news, actual TV advertisement might have somenthing useful. If it were not for advertisement, I wouldn't know Chevy is still in business.

The big Internet provider in the US is Comcast. They have purchased Paramont films and many other media networks.
The "Free Comcast Email" that comes free with my $50.00 a month Internet that works somewhat consistantlly includes a dozen streaming advertisement.

Based on the London Telegraph article, if Comcast just cut out the useless streaming advertisements on its Email, it would probably be equal to a Nuke power plant. Where are the Greens when we really need them?

 

[Rx_]

Older world map of the BTU consumed per Captia
http://burnanenergyjournal.com/wp-c...gyConsumptionPerCapita2010_v4_BargraphKey.jpg
No wonder internet is 8% of Englands energy.
An average Engilish home must have a 10 amp circuit breaker!

After a house fire from overloaded electrical wires, I upgraded from a 60 Amp (2 phase) circuit box to a 200 Amp. If I had to scale down to the England per Capita, my internet would most likely exceed 8%.

 

[Brianwarnock]

How are those figures calculated?
Are they just the figures for energy used in the home or a country's total energy consumption divided by its population?

Brian

 

[Bladerunner]

6% , I don't last that long.

not 6 minutes, 6 %

lol

Blade

 

[Bladerunner]

It's your biggest Trade Export

When I was stationed in Germany, back when, Prostitution was very legal. They actually did medical checkups on the gals that fessed up to the trade. Outside Kaiserslautern and in between Landstuhl, a road about twenty miles long was known as 'twenty mark strassa' or about $5 in American dollars. They even had sex houses back then.

No, We imported it when they(we) came over from the England and Europe long ago. Sorry.

Blade

 

[Rx_]

My guess is that it is total energy divided by population. That chart was a littel "aged". Turns out that the energy can be used as an indicator of the Recession our government claims has ended.

The chart I will leave out is how the autos went upward. The government lowered interest rates to enable banks to make loans on cars to save Wall Street. So, people here prefer the huge SUV. Of course, with 10 Million less people employed since 2007, that SUV might count as residential?

The article explains that home efficiency is not the big factor, it is the economy. I would estimate my Internet (including laser printing), cable TV is probably 4% of my electric bill. All of my TV and dual Monitors (6 at home) are the latest LED.

This is the US Home (residence) chart from ZeroHedge so the dated chart above may not be as accurate:

Zero Hedge chart of the US: