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	If You're Not Going To Use It, Turn it Off

kidora

6-15-2007 1:22 PM

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energy, conservation, computer

kidora says:

Just another way to save you some bucks on you electric bill.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1d3d1756-41c4-4df1-b3fd-8b7a2ca5d5b7/0ABB57AC-9C2E-441A-9328-5047695E9E08/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/technology/14basics.html?ex=1339473600&en=09f3f4ee316d0508&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/technology/14basics.html?ex=1339473600&en=09f3f4ee316d0508&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/technology/14basics.html?ex=1339473600&en=09f3f4ee316d0508&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss"><P>I THOUGHT I was pretty good about energy conservation, but it turns out that I’ve been a bit of a hypocrite. I drive a reasonably fuel-efficient car, I work at home so I don’t use fuel to commute and I am replacing incandescent bulbs in my home with energy-efficient fluorescent bulbs.</p> <DIV id="articleInline">
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 <P>But I am also a prodigious computer user, and it looks as if that makes me an energy hog. I started checking how much electricity my electronics were consuming when I wasn’t using them.  I used a Kill A Watt EZ energy meter (available online for about $25)  and began measuring.  My PC was continuously drawing 134 watts all night.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0ABB57AC-9C2E-441A-9328-5047695E9E08/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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