Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bridge2!ngg From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Leave it on? Or once a week? Message-ID: <1381@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> Date: 2 Mar 90 21:44:25 GMT References: <1161@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1990Feb16.131329.10113@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> <1990Feb17.053613.23695@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> <6117@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1357@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> Distribution: usa Organization: 3Com Corp., Mt. View, CA Lines: 25 > 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. >Jim Gish Now were trying to turn the issue of leaving computers on into an environmental issue...yeesh. There are probably slews of things that you do on a daily basis that you never even think about that are more damaging to the environment than leaving your computer on. This should not even be considering IMHO.. ----- -- Norm Goodger SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862 3Com Corp. Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie. Enterprise Systems Division (I disclaim anything and everything) UUCP: {3comvax,auspex,sun}!bridge2!ngg Internet: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM