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California and Five Other States Ban... Gaming Computers?
"Six states, led by California's fulltime climate alarmists, this week enacted a ban on the sales of high-end gaming computers.
Niche Gamer reports that Dell is already following the 2017 law that just went into effect. According to the gamer-focused site, Dell has "pulled the sale of seven of its eight Alienware gaming desktops" from California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington.
Trying to order one of the banned machines will alert buyers, "This product cannot be shipped to the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont or Washington due to power consumption regulations adopted by those states. Any orders placed that are bound for those states will be canceled."
The offending component would seem to be the power-hungry NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card, but it's no problem to order the card separately and install it yourself. I tried ordering one from Amazon without any hassle.
Gamers, you might have guessed, aren't happy."
Also at PC Gamer and The Register.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by KilroySmith on Thursday July 29 2021, @06:44PM (1 child)
Yeah, I live in Phoenix.
My Clothes Dryer is inside the house, and exhausts outside. Which means it sucks 100F+ outdoor air into the house, where the air conditioner cools it down to 75F. Then the 75F air is sucked into the dryer, where electric heating coils heat it up to 200F (or whatever) to dry the clothes, and exhausts it outside. Never understood why, in this climate, the builder didn't put the dryer outside - it'd be a double advantage not having to heat the air as much and not having to cool the outside air that gets sucked into the house.
Of course, my electric Water Heater is in the house too. So I pay to heat water, then pay to cool the air that gets heated by the hot water tank.
Thinking about Energy use was...different...back in 1980 when this house was built.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday July 30 2021, @03:36AM
Where I lived in SoCal, my water heater was in a cabinet attached to the back of the house. Which was great in summer; not so good in winter, when high desert temps are often below freezing (and occasionally below zero). Water arrived in the kitchen at best lukewarm, and preventing pipe freeze was an annual challenge. (Water heater didn't put out enough waste heat to keep its space warm.)
Here in the Northern Wastes, it's in the utility basement, and the waste heat is entirely trapped and suffices to keep the pipes from freezing, yet is not enough to heat up the space in summer. (When I use basement air to cool the house.)
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.