Superb Tool Fights Global Warming From Your Desktop
Sep 18th, 2007 by Do
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I stumbled on a site last week, Local Cooling.com that offers a desktop download to help manage the energy your computer uses. This free tool “automatically optimizes your PC’s power consumption by using a more effective power save mode. You will be able to see your savings in real-time translated to more environmental terms such as how many trees and gallons of oil you have saved.” Frankly, it’s been quite fabulous to watch my savings for the environment add up and fight global warming.
“More than 30 billion kilowatt-hours of energy is wasted because many of us simply forget to shut down our computers when we’re not using them. If we could just improve the efficiency of how we use our PCs, the savings in energy costs would be over $3 billion dollars! The CO2 emissions from just 15 computers are equivalent in energy terms to the gas consumption used by one car.”
“Remember, if you leave the PC on with just a screen saver on the CRT when you’re not using it, it’s STILL using up to 280 watts per hour of completely wasted power. Power that pumps out 1.5lbs of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere for every KWh. If left on for 24 hours that’s 9lbs of CO2 every day and 3,285lbs per year. That’s more than 1.6 tons of CO2 thrown up into the atmosphere just to keep your one single PC working.”
-From LocalCooling.com
When using this tool, you can adjust personal settings to whatever you wish, so you have complete control. I’ve been using this tool for a little over a week and it hasn’t interfered in any way with how my computer works, but I’m saving energy! When I’m gone for a while, my screen shuts off. If I’m gone even longer, I can set it to shut down my PC after a certain amount of time. What could be better?! It’s practically invisible to me, but helping the environment. You just can’t say no to that. I’ve been very impressed and want to spread the word since I highly recommend downloading and using this tool.
Like their home page says, “Even a small step can change the course of the future.”
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That is a cool too!!!! I’ll need to consider this!
Thanks!
Hugs,
Megan
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This is a great idea, as my desktop uses alot more energy these days as I am using it alot more. Its good to know the exact figures of what you can do to save energy. Thanks for the tip.