Re: Scientific output

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Mon Jul 22 2002 - 21:08:17 MDT


On Monday, July 22, 2002, at 06:48 pm, Cory Przybyla wrote:

> In "Hyperspace" by a brilliant physicist named Michio
> Kaku, (Chapter 13), he suggests measuring it by means
> of energy consumption.

This make sense as a measure of energy = production. However, it fails
to take into account inefficient technologies that consume more and
produce less. A big explosion or supernova would consume more energy
than real computing, for example.

It implies that a gas-guzzling Buick has more scientific output than a
computer. Or, that a cool-running motorola chip in a Macintosh running
an AI has less scientific output than a hot-running Intel chip running
the flying Windows-logo screen-saver.

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Harvey Newstrom, CISSP		<www.HarveyNewstrom.com>
Principal Security Consultant	<www.Newstaff.com>


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