There are 3 broad types and an average of 2 sub-types of power dissipation in digital CMOS circuits. The best electronic products run while dissipating around 20% energy at their best. Generally around 40% is just lost in thin air. DC power transmission lines lose around the same amount just allowing the power to reach its destination. AC power is lost as reactive power in leaky capacitors and noisy inductance. So much of energy is put in knowing that it is going to be lost in thin air.
The wonders of Apple’s touch technology is from just 60% of the energy that runs it. Motors in BMWs are awfully noisy and lossy in the electrical sense. And digital electronic circuits are supposedly the most efficient machines.
Relating this to a human tendency of expecting just results and rewards, it’s close to preposterous; this expectation and greed. One must always remember that the most efficient machines get only 60% of the input as output. Imagine the efforts that have gone into making of the biggest machines, machinery and organisations of the world! Then spare a thought for our own efforts and the corresponding expectations we have of ourselves. Improving efficiency will reach a dead end soon. There is a need to improve absolute output. There is a need to improve absolute input.
P. S.: Please don’t trust the numbers and earn yourself a bad grade.
I love this.
I think Amreeka is having a good effect on you. More appreciation of abstract beauty and less whining about things.
With all due respect, don’t come back.
But whining is fun! It’s nice to get philosophical on very obvious issues while revising academic concepts
Amreeka does seem to be a poetic country. Never previously did I give importance to the output. I have started to now. I will have an opinion on this later in time.