Google says it spends 0.0003 kWh of energy on a search query

Doctorbass

Doctorbass

100 GW
Joined
Apr 8, 2007
Messages
7,499
Location
Quebec, Canada East
Amazing and the average Human brain consumes 20 watt thats 1/8th of that what a e-bike in england/australia/europe/canada can legaly driven to be difinied as a normal bicycle (200w minus max efficencie ~83% for hubmotor) whilest a normal trained bicycle rider can output 500w constant for over 30minutes and pulse over 1200w real power with no efficencie lost... :oops: who can also reach surely more than 25km/h constant.

Why we have a law for power my grandmom can put on street ?

We need a variable law wher the rider gets testet on a wattsmeterbicycle and exactly what gets mesured he can than drive legaly with a licence paper with electric motor on his e-bike! That would create new jobs and would be the right step into the future :mrgreen:
 
sirlenka said:
Amazing and the average Human brain consumes 20 watt thats 1/8th of that what a e-bike in england/australia/europe/canada can legaly driven to be difinied as a normal bicycle (200w minus max efficencie ~83% for hubmotor)
Click to expand...

The 250W limit is measured directly in an acceleration test of the bicycle. Ergo, it's based on true output power and not subject to inefficiencies in the drive system.

It's still a shitty limit, though ;)
 
They know how many searches all users has done in one year, and then divide that number with their overall power consumption. Has nothing to do with how much energy one search costs. They also have gmail and youtube and etc.etc.etc.
 
Maybe the search engine is handled by dedicated servers? If so, subtracting the idle power consumption really would give an average consumption per search...
 
Punx0r said:
Maybe the search engine is handled by dedicated servers? If so, subtracting the idle power consumption really would give an average consumption per search...
Click to expand...

I don't think the have much idle time... unless I'm misunderstanding something about mega servers
 
Hah! This is awesome Doc. I have to be more conservative about searching... :mrgreen:
 
Takemehome said:
Hey doc, are you saying that we should not use the search button so that ES can save energy ? :twisted:
Click to expand...


Hey E-S is already green :mrgreen:

Doc
 
The weight of the bike and rider are taken into account. It's simply a formula based on the weight and the time to cover a set distance from a standing start.

cal3thousand said:
Punx0r said:
Maybe the search engine is handled by dedicated servers? If so, subtracting the idle power consumption really would give an average consumption per search...
Click to expand...

I don't think the have much idle time... unless I'm misunderstanding something about mega servers
Click to expand...

I figure you need to subtract the idle consumption otherwise you'd have a huge consumption figure to process zero searches. I guess you can argue either way whether the overhead consumption should be included.
 
sirlenka said:
whilest a normal trained bicycle rider can output 500w constant for over 30minutes and pulse over 1200w real power with no efficencie lost...
Click to expand...

I've heard humans come in at around 25% efficiency, everything being accounted for... Pulsing 1200W is only for three seconds and continous power is not up in the five hundreds - hell, tour de france cyclists holds 350W.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top