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How often do you boot your Windows?

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How often do you start your Windows?

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Post November 9th, 2008, 10:01 am

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Are servers more environmentally safe than workstations?

No. But, as ATNO/TW told you, you can shutdown your workstations and you can't shutdown your servers.
I thing the key is shutting down workstations that don't really need be working overnight.
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Post November 9th, 2008, 10:01 am

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Post November 9th, 2008, 2:47 pm

I knew that there was no difference between the two. I asked the question because it sounded strange that someone would shutdown for that reason in the first place. I don't think that leaving a PC running does anything to the environment at all.
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Post November 16th, 2008, 1:12 pm

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I don't think that leaving a PC running does anything to the environment at all.

Well, there is something called reality. And if you leave your PC on overnight for nothing you will be wasting 40W per hour. Which means 8hs x 40W equal to 320W per night. If half the PC owners in USA think as wrong as you think, that would be like 125 million PCs wasting 320 Watt per night. Now, I'm not an electrical engineer but that sounds a lot to me.
You are free to believe whatever you want to believe, anyway. :wink:

[http://windows.uwaterloo.ca/Hardware/PC_Power_Consumption.htm]
[http://www.c-i-a.com/pr0203.htm]
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Post November 16th, 2008, 1:23 pm

You may also like reading:

http://www.localcooling.com/info/facts/
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/tech/ ... 371602.php
http://green.asus.com/english/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=333
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Post November 16th, 2008, 1:45 pm

http://green.yahoo.com/18seconds
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Post November 16th, 2008, 7:22 pm

The cost of electrical energy varies from place to place but here in NY, I was told by a specialist in energy conservation, that if I left my PC on for an entire year, it would only cost me $167.00. My father spends over $500.00 per year on the NY Times, talk about a waste of money!

So, how is that for reality?
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Post November 17th, 2008, 6:32 am

In average I reboot theree times a day, sometimes due to my computer wish and BSOD.
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Post November 17th, 2008, 1:42 pm

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My father spends over $500.00 per year on the NY Times, talk about a waste of money!

So, how is that for reality?

You didn't read my post, did you?
Was I talking about money? I though I was talking about the environment. I don't care about your economy, I care about the planet we both live in.
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Post November 17th, 2008, 2:36 pm

Calm down a tad Leo. I'm all for "green" as well, but no need to turn this thread hostile. We can debate but let's be nice about it.
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Post November 17th, 2008, 3:12 pm

The point was that if so much electricity were being wasted, it would show in the cost.
If it only costs 167.00 dollars to run a PC for an entire year, that's not a lot of waste.

Cutting trees to make the newspaper does more damage to the environment and it costs more. I was making a comparison.
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Post November 17th, 2008, 4:34 pm

Personally, my thought on newspapers is that they are a dinosaur that should be extinct. Agreed that it's a serious waste of trees, money etc to continue to print an antiquated medium, when all the information contained, therein is available electronically.

However, to the point of leo, re: electric consumption, it is important I think for heavy users of electric, IE corporations, to be aware of the environmental impact. Our parent corporation is, and by default we are as well and measure our carbon footprint by a variety of emission sources including electric with the objective of reducing our carbon footprint in an effort to be environmentally aware and good stewards of the earth. We even post the details publicly on our website with the year 2000 as our base measurement. You can view it here if you'd like.
http://www.alaron-nuclear.com/loadCarbon.html

That's why earlier I commented it could be worth looking into shutting down our workstations during unneeded times.
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Post November 17th, 2008, 4:56 pm

Wait a minute. The OP had nothing to do with corporations and neither did Leo's posts.
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Post November 17th, 2008, 8:38 pm

Don2007 wrote:
Wait a minute. The OP had nothing to do with corporations and neither did Leo's posts.


yes and no. Inherently I agree that wasn't the intent, however, who are the bulk of the PC users in the US but corporate users that go home every night after work. So do they turn off their PC when they leave? Do they just log off? Do they go to standby? Do they Hibernate? What makes a typical home user different from a corporate user? When they go to sleep what do they do? And why shouldn't a home user be just as interested in the effect they can have on environment?

Take my argument with a grain of salt. I'm a user that typical leaves every computer he touches turned on and never reboots until absolutely necessary. But I'm open to considering "green" possibilities as leo is suggesting.
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Post November 17th, 2008, 9:19 pm

A PC doesn't know where it is or who is using it but we can add corporate users to the mix, if you want. When I maintained a network for a mortgage company, I had the users shut the monitor and leave the CPU running. I do the same thing. The monitor uses far more energy then the CPU. People shut their TVs, they rarely shut the cable box No matter who does what, a PC uses very little energy.

I do electrical work sometimes as well. Air conditioners, refrigerators and electric heating, take more than anything.

PCs running 24/7 would be the last thing to kill the planet.
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Post November 19th, 2008, 12:17 pm

i turn mine on in the morning and off at night :)
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