Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!texbell!wuarchive!usc!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!iuvax!pewter!harlan From: harlan@pewter.ucs.indiana.edu (Pete Harlan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Leave it on? Or once a week? Message-ID: <37285@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 27 Feb 90 20:32:35 GMT References: <1161@ux.acs.umn.edu> Sender: root@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Distribution: usa Lines: 27 jwg1@gte.com (James W. Gish) writes: |In article <...> ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) writes: | ... | unusual or bad for a Plus. It is my opinion, leave it on.. | So I say, leave it on, it does not hurt, its probably better all the | way around for the equipment, hard disks included, and will probably | increase the life of the unit. | Yes, BUT what about the life of our planet!!!! I know that there are | far bigger consumers of electricity than our computers, but I still in | all good conscience cannot leave on my machines at work when I go home | at night. Consider that there are on the order of tens of millions of | personal computers alone in this country, if everyone left his or | her's on at night the energy consumption would be substantial. I like your argument, but why isn't throwing out and replacing electronic equipment just as wasteful as using up a little extra electricity? Isn't the whole reason "leaving it on" is cost-effective because a computer represents more resources per month (over its lifetime) than the electricity required to run it? Just trying to figure this out, Pete Harlan harlan@silver.ucs.indiana.edu