Energy-saving software
Computers and their peripherals are responsible for a substantial amount of the electric power consumed in the world. Business, government, and industry are responsible for the majority of use but home PCs also use a lot of power. Some new free software to help cut down power consumption has now become available. The New York Times has some details:
Microsoft, the nonprofit Climate Savers Computing Initiative and a start-up called Verdiem are combining to put a spotlight on the energy-saving opportunity in PCs, and distributing a free software tool to consumers to help them do it.
The potential savings in both dollars and pollution is huge, analysts say, when the estimated one billion PCs in use globally are taken into account. The research firm Gartner estimates that 40 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions resulting from information technology and telecommunications are attributable to PCs. Data center computers account for 23 percent, and the rest is attributable to printers and telecommunications equipment.
The software can be downloaded from Microsoft at this link. I mostly turn off my PCs at night and when not in use but if anyone tries the software, let us know how it works out.
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