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From: rer@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Rob Robason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Monitors and the environment (sort of)
Message-ID: <5570535@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 90 17:46:30 GMT
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myers> If that's what you pay for electricity, then you would pay
myers> $393.12 to leave your monitor on 24 hours a day for a year.

Thanks for that input.  Given that, and figuring I'm at work and need my
display about 240 days a year, 10 hours a day (about 27% duty cycle), I
can save about $285 a year by turning it off when I leave.  I don't have
a support price list handy, but I'm sure a support contract on my
monitor would be more than paid for by this savings, and I wouldn't have
to feel as guilty about the generation of all that nuclear waste at the
power plant.

Rates in my area work out less than the example, but it's in the
ballpark.  I'm going to start turning mine off.

Rob