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24/7 Techies will configure your computer to consume less power! Within a few clicks from here you can start saving energy and fight climate change instantly. An average desktop computer with a 17-inch monitor needs between 150 and 350 watts of electricity while it is being actively used. If you were to leave that computer on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it would use over $200 of electricity and lead to the release of over 1.5 tons of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere. Tuning your PC go Green for just a few hours a day can lead to substantial carbon savings.
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Energy Fact
Did you know that many of your household electronics and appliances use electricity even when they are turned off? This is known as standby or "phantom" power. For instance, your television uses standby power so that it can be ready to instantly turn on when you click the remote control. Your computer's printer powers down, but isn't really off unless you turn off its power switch or unplug it. Anything you own that has a transformer plugged into a socket is probably drawing electricity all the time, even when the gadget it's connected to is not in use. Skeptical? Touch the transformer. If it is warm to the touch, then it's wasting electricity.
At a few watts here and a few watts there, this loss of "phantom" power really begins to add up. In the United States, an estimated 5% of residential electricity is used as "phantom" power. According to the Department of Energy, that wasted 5% amounts to an annual energy loss of 64 million megawatt-hours of electricity - an amount of energy equivalent to the output of 18 typical power stations and at a cost of over $3 billion. If we could stop the use of all that "phantom" power, we could keep 100 billion pounds of CO2 out of Earth's atmosphere each year. |
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