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In the past many devices were created with little concern of direct or indirect impacts on society or the environment.
While technology developers have begun to utilize systems thinking by looking at development from beyond the scope of a device, the greatest improvements have occurred arguably in the last fifteen years.
This may be observed in the rise of device recyclability, resource utilization and power consumption. In this presentation I'll focus on power.
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Fusion
[video]
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To begin, let's look at power and resource consumption and where it is forecasted to go in this TED video.
Start video at 6:20.
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While it may sound like we've got a bleak future, the continued evolution of technology in terms of power consumption (and generation outside of fusion) will ease that future.
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Univac 1
(size of small house)
Intel Pineview
(size of penny)
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The first commercial computer, UNIVAC 1 consumed 125,000 Watts of power (approximately the power consumption of ten homes) with 2.25Mhz of processing power.
Today the Intel Pineview processor consumes 7 Watts of power with 1.83 Ghz of processing power.
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Molecular Transistor
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Technology being developed now, such as the molecular transitor, will allow processors to be built to consume even less power than they do now.
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qFHD Display
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New display technology such as the qFHD Transparent OLED Display by Samsung means that a laptop (and other devices) consume even less power.
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3D OLED
Quantum Dots
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As display technology has changed, power requirements have gone down.
The annual cost of a CRT is 63% higher than an equivalent sized LCD display.
An average plasma television consumes 301 Watts of power.
An average LCD television consumes 111 Watts of power.
An average LED lcd television consumes 101 Watts of power.
The Quantum Dot LED television will have 40% greater efficiency than LCD. See Quantum Dot [spec] and [image].
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Light source power consumption (based on a traditional 60 Watt incandescent bulb) has gone from 60 Watts to 6 Watts.
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There are many technologies being developed to create power to help offset energy demand.
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Energy capture from biological forms is also being researched such as capturing electricity from trees.
Bones are already being created from trees [video].
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New devices capitalize on technological innovation to consume less power than their predecessors.
Less energy demand as legacy devices are replaced.
People save money by consuming less power.
As technology continues to evolve, power demand for many devices will continue to decease.
Likewise new power generation technology will produce more power.
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