Knock a novel how much the energy consumption by pressing the keyboard?
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As a writer, I would like to know how to write a novel energy accumulated thousands of keys used by hit would be spectacular, please?
——Nicolas Dickner
To give you a conscience recommend: don't waste money to invest at any time the keyboard power projects.
People really like to explore energy dissipation, the remedy. Avoid wasting really good right now, but sometimes one is difficult to calculate the amount of energy flowing through the system. For example recently that sounds cool "solar panels paving project" (spread the solar panels on the road so that you can take advantage of all the solar energy, waste), but it just sounds cool, and actually calculate the cost issue will know that it doesn't. The other hand, some clever recycling ideas succeeds through, for example, recycled doors and brake energy regeneration brake.
As for the keyboard, because a lot of people suffering from repetitive strain injuries and other reasons, there are many studies on the key energy-consuming projects. Borrowed a study on rubber dome keyboard data--this is by far the most used keyboard types- we can calculate the energy required to press a letter key about 1.5 MJ, press the SPACEBAR or the Enter key this key is pressed the energy required for 2.5 MJ.
Then, 1.5 MJ how big? It can let a drop of water temperature of 1% degrees. A squirrel can be up to 300 microns-well, is probably the 4-page paper that high.
Now, we know the energy required to press the button once; we then do the math to write a novel needs to press the number keys.
A novel about 500,000 to 1 million words, so making these words at least require so many button. BACKSPACE and rewrite the number varies among people. Some people can hardly go wrong always knock down, some people need to constantly modify the output character.
But no matter where you are above the typist, are in fact not much difference. If you can be entered without having to modify went smoothly, then write a book about 1000 joules of energy will be consumed. If you want to repeatedly modify the input characters, you may need to consume thousands of j-even if you are rewriting every Word 10 times, accumulated energy is the equivalent of a AA battery for power.
Knock the energy saved by an entire novel, probably enough for 15 seconds on your computer. If you're writing a novel takes 6 months, it's about every 1 million seconds of power loss you can save seconds.
However, a novel type of six months should not be too many, there are a lot of people every day the amount of typing is great. Accrued WhatPulse website provides users with a number of mouse clicks and keyboard strokes, so that users can upload their own mouse and keyboard use the compared data with other users.
This site has been running for more than 10 years, they were the oldest and most active users and users, keystrokes has reached 100 million times. Number of keystrokes and some of them the equivalent of two months to write a novel, or even a week to write a novel.
But this still doesn't save much energy. If you want just by typing energy run the laptop, you need to hit novel in 10 seconds.
Well, no matter how fast you type, writing is not a sport. Or the sentence, seriously, you're lost.
