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Companies Waste $2.8 Billion Per Year Powering Unused PCs
snydeq writes "Unused PCs — computers that are powered on but not in use — are expected to emit approximately 20 million tons of CO2 this year, roughly equivalent to the impact of 4 million cars, according to report by 1E and the Alliance to Save Energy. All told, US organizations will waste $2.8 billion to power 108 million unused machines this year. The notion that power used turning on PCs negates any benefits of turning them off has been discussed recently as one of five PC power myths. By turning off unused machines and practicing proper PC power management, companies stand to save more than $36 per desktop PC per year."
Unused PCs computers that are powered on but not in use are expected to emit approximately 20 million tons of CO2 this year
How exactly does that happen? What about the computers that are powered by a nuclear reactor?
I thought when CPUs emit smoke you have to buy a new one.
I'm at work, enviro-conscious, and I love my company. So I'll turn my workstation off right n
what exactly are these programs doing which takes such an incredible amount of time before they become useful?
Initializing DRM layers, generating transparent overlay effects, decreasing the spin speed of the hard drive and generating a nice Vista logo on the desktop.
Reticulating splines?
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Elrond, Duke of URL
"This is the most fun I've had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!"-Sam&Max
It's not a lot of trouble, but if everybody did it, we could easily halve the power consumed by households!
Actually spend the time to turn things off?! I spent too much time turning them on! You're asking too much! It'll take away time from my Jerry Springer!
I, for example, use less than half as much electricity as the average household around me, simply because I use energy-efficient products and turn off most things when I'm not using them.
What! Save?!? Save energy!?
Let me tell you something you tie-died tee-shirt Birkenstock wearing Prius driving hippy pinko! This is America! WE don't conserve! We don't have to! We get our oil cheap. As far back as I can remember, October or so, oil has never been expensive and there's ALWAYS been plenty of it! And let's say, for the sake of argument you hippies are right and that the oil will run out. We'll drill for more! Drill baby drill! That's has and always will solve our energy problems.
**Grumbling while going for his morning BUD**
Pinko hippy liberal! Conserving energy!
***Yells to wife**
Is Sean or Rush on yet!
I've some coworkers whose PCs would be more productive turned off... I won't even go into their environmental impact... [shudder!] --Ray
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How dare you call these PCs unused... They're part of my botnet you insensitive clods !
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