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Archive for September 30th, 2011

“Fight the Power!” – No, “Fight the Energy!”

Posted: Friday, September 30th, 2011 @ 1:43 am in Uncategorized | No Comments »

For years I have observed a simple confusion between power and energy leading designers to jump to odd conceptions about design alternatives. Power consumption is expressed in units such as milliWatts (mW) consumed over some suitably short interval of time.  To quote our modern oracle, Wikipedia, In its technical sense, power is not at all [...]