News: Google, Intel target efficient PC power supplies

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Google, Intel and a host of PC and component companies on Tuesday unfurled the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, an effort to increase energy efficiency in PCs.

 

At the heart of the initiative is a push to get PC makers and consumers to adopt more efficient power supplies and voltage regulators. These two components, working together, convert AC power from a wall socket to 12-volt DC power that a computer uses.

 

Roughly 50 percent of the power delivered from a wall socket to a PC never actually performs any work, according to Urs H

Edited June 13, 2007 by neddamttocs