re monitors kept on hrs day long in article npri npri com murphy npri npri com david p murphy wrote a cnn factiod in the last few months stated that of all the computers in the u s are left on hours a day days a week i don t recall cnn s source ljones utkvx utk edu leslie jones here s something to add to the discussion newsgroups misc activism progressive from james p reynolds jpr lehigh edu subject when you re not using it turn it off date mon mar gmt lines research has shown that the majority of the time that the united states to million personal computers are on they are not actively being used in addition to percent are left running at night and on weekends computer equipment is now the fastest growing private sector use of electricity computers alone are believed to account for five percent of commercial electricity consumption and may account for ten percent by the year if you are one of those who leave them on after you re done it would be a big environmental benefit if you would just turn it off when you re not using it it only takes a second or two to do also the majority of the power your computer uses is not consumed by the computer itself but by the monitor if you can t turn the computer off then please just turn off the monitor the u s environmental protection agency has formed an alliance with computer manufacturers to promote the introduction of energy efficient pcs that power down automatically when not being used and thus reduce the air pollution caused by power generation these new computers will save enough electricity to power both vermont and new hampshire and save up to billion u s dollars in annual electricity bills look for the special epa energy star logo when you buy computers they should be available in one to two years according to the epa studies the energy saved will prevent co emissions of million tons annually the equivalent of five million automobiles also tons of so and tons of nitrogen oxide emissions will be saved these are the major pollutants responsible for acid rain please do your part be responsible if you re not using it then just turn it off information herein is partially taken from the information please almanac page and the u s envirnomental protection agency s environmental news please redistribute this message to every computer bulletin board network memo system etc you can think of archive it and post it every so often if you can let s get the word out to everyone we need to be responsible about the way we consume jim reynolds end
