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From: ucbked@athena.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
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Subject: Re: Leaving computer equip. on (was: Monitor reliabilty)
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Date: 20 Sep 90 00:07:17 GMT
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In article <42@voa3.UUCP> ck@voa3.UUCP (Chris Kern) writes:
>You need to consider more than the cost of electricity in deciding 
>whether to keep monitors, or other computer equipment, powered up

Similarly, if your concern is environmental (minimizing the use of
energy), you must consider how much energy will be used if turning the
machine on and off increases the failure rate.  At the very least you
will have one trip to take the machine in for repair and one trip to
return it.  The energy used for even a moderate auto trip will generate
a fair amount of juice.