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Richard Branson (who asked for UK taxpayer money to repair his private island after hurricane Irma) Has set a climate change challenge:
As the world continues to warm, you can expect more and more folks to be turning to air conditioners to keep their living environments cool and comfortable. And in that sense, this energy-intensive technology will do plenty to exacerbate the very problem it is designed to solve. The Global Cooling Prize is a competition to help stop runaway climate change, by dangling US$3 million in prize money for the development of more energy-efficient cooling solutions.
The Global Cooling Prize is backed by the Indian government among other partners, with Richard Branson taking on the ambassadorial duties.
$3M could keep this site running for some time -- go team SoylentNews!
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday December 04 2018, @09:37PM
R-Pi still does not qualify as a "real PC" in my book - neither do Atom nor Celeron systems. Core i3 or better is almost there, and I typically am not happy 'til I'm up in the Core i5 range. I've been a spcr fan for years: http://www.silentpcreview.com/section18.html [silentpcreview.com] and actually purchased an i5 for use at work, it ran about $2200 for something that a similar-ish NUC might have cost ~$1000 - not entirely apples to apples because the silent PC has a miniITX mobo and I believe a true 4 core processor instead of 2 hyperthreaded like you get in the NUCs.
Anyway.... watch those "limited time" prices - I've been keeping my eye on Samsung EVO 860 1TB m.2 SSDs for a few months now, their Amazon prices have bounced between $129 and $189 over the space of weeks.
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