[familyop]

Granted, we’ll continue to run the AFS partitions and micro-ATX workstations for a while, until the new CPU prices come down and a better solution is found for the power consumption in NASs (drive arrays). But the news on 1 - 10 watt processors is good. One of those will knock another 100 watts or so out of the cold server closet.

[Myrddin]

I've successfully run 5 - 8 watt PC104 CPU boards on my railcars. It takes very aggressive power management to keep the lead acid storage battery charged from intermittent input from the Timken bearing generator (20 watts max at 15 MPH). I use a PIC microcontroller to manage the charging cycle so the x86 is only alive when necessary.