If this is true, it surely makes a mockery of Wissner-Gross's claims as there's no way an average computer USES as much power as an electric kettle when it's boiling water.

如果这是真的，这当然就使Wissner - Gross的学说变成了笑料，因为一台普通的电脑根本不可能消耗用电水壶烧开水所消耗的能量。

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“But then the kettle drum comes in,” demanding a sudden power surge of 1-kilowatt.

但随着引入定音鼓，需要1千瓦的电涌。

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If everyone boiled only the water they needed every time they used the kettle, we could save enough electricity in a year to power the UK's street lights for nearly seven months.

如果每个人都只用水壶煮他们需要的水，我们在一年里节省的电力足够点亮全英国的路灯将近七个月。

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For example: An Internet-jacked kettle that alerts us when the national power grid is overloaded (a prototype has been developed by U.K. engineer Chris Adams) doesn't prevent us from boiling yet another cup of tea, but it does add an extra ethical dimension to that choice.

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