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La nuova Termodinamica Quantistica.
Per decenni, il mondo dell'infinitamente piccolo ha sfidato le leggi della fisica classica. Oggi, un team di ricercatori dell'Università di Basilea ha finalmente gettato un ponte tra questi due mondi, definendo un nuovo quadro teorico che spiega come il calore e il lavoro si comportano livello quantistico

https://scienzamagia.eu/scienza-e-tecnologia/la-nuova-termodinamica-quantistica/

#BatterieQuantistiche #coerenzaquantistica #GreenComputing #metrologiaquantistica #ripetitoriquantistici #TermodinamicaQuantistica

Database Connection Issue

Reversible Computing: Der Prozessor, der Energie zurückgewinnt, statt zu verheizen - Golem.de

Normale Prozessoren wandeln sämtliche Energie in Wärme. Ein Start-up will das ändern, der erste Test-Chip recycelt 43 Prozent der Energie.

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Unfortunately due to tariffs we are not able to purchase more Compute Blades for our GreenWare project without paying 20% in import tariffs. As a state and federally tax exempt organization, it’s unfortunate that we are being taxed by our government. ☹️

#Tariff #Tariffs #GreenComputing #ComputeBlade #RaspberryPi

#Scribus is a (*the*) #floss desktop-publishing #dtp software and totally underrated.

What can I say … it really grew on me. It gets the *job* done.
With a fraction of the (monetary, computational and cognitive) resources a (*the*) competitor would need. 🌱

🌐 https://www.scribus.net

#CMYK #prepress #pdf #alternativeTo #floss #libre #BuyEuropean #GraphicsDesign #mediengestaltung #typography #typesetting #pagemaking #printdesign #framemaker #indesign #pagemaker #greencomputing #opensource

Green Bytes: The Journey Towards Sustainable IT & Green Computing.

This post explores sustainable IT practices, energy-efficient computing, e-waste reduction, and green digital infrastructures to spark dialogue and inspire action. In our fast-moving world…

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Hackintoshing as a Sustainable Environmental Practice

I am a big fan of making devices play tricks they are not (originally) intended for, and “hackintoshing” is such a category. Back in the days us nerds would ask the question “Can it run DOOM?” when…

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Is #YouTube reducing the average bitrate on 1080p videos for non-Premium users? I always hear about compression artefacts but rarely noticed them, until recently.

You'd think higher compression is good for #EnergyEfficiency. The impact of delaying the expansion of networking hardware is hard to assess. Energy spent on client-side decoding and new client hardware probably dominates.

Results of encoding settings are not obvious:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09854

#ClimateChange #Google #GreenComputing

A Survey on Energy Consumption and Environmental Impact of Video Streaming

Climate change challenges require a notable decrease in worldwide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across technology sectors. Digital technologies, especially video streaming, accounting for most Internet traffic, make no exception. Video streaming demand increases with remote working, multimedia communication services (e.g., WhatsApp, Skype), video streaming content (e.g., YouTube, Netflix), video resolution (4K/8K, 50 fps/60 fps), and multi-view video, making energy consumption and environmental footprint critical. This survey contributes to a better understanding of sustainable and efficient video streaming technologies by providing insights into the state-of-the-art and potential future directions for researchers, developers, and engineers, service providers, hosting platforms, and consumers. We widen this survey's focus on content provisioning and content consumption based on the observation that continuously active network equipment underneath video streaming consumes substantial energy independent of the transmitted data type. We propose a taxonomy of factors that affect the energy consumption in video streaming, such as encoding schemes, resource requirements, storage, content retrieval, decoding, and display. We identify notable weaknesses in video streaming that require further research for improved energy efficiency: (1) fixed bitrate ladders in HTTP live streaming; (2) inefficient hardware utilization of existing video players; (3) lack of comprehensive open energy measurement dataset covering various device types and coding parameters for reproducible research.

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