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Green Burn-in

Posted June 08, 2007 7:46 AM

From The Engineer:

A research team at the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong (CityU), has developed an energy-efficient burn-in system for power supplies that "reuses" electricity. The system is expected to lower production costs for power supply manufacturers and save energy. Electronic appliances like notebook computers and chargers for cell phones need a power supply to convert alternate current (AC) from the socket into direct current (DC). But before a power supply goes to the market, it has to go through the process of "burn-in", a process which wastes a large amount of electricity.

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Re: Green Burn-in

06/09/2007 9:45 AM

If you stand back and look at what makes this planet go it is energy pure and simple -we get it from the sun and plants turn it into food and fuel that we consume. the sun gives us solar energy and with wind currents we produce more energy or more correctly convert one energy source into a different form that we can use. the point of all this is that any means to conserve energy will over all grant a payback to all the people of this planet so in a nutshell efficiency is the KEY!!

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