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- From: koelman@cuby.stc.nl (Ton Koelman)
- Subject: Re: Turning off NeXT at night....
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.115130.945@stc.nato.int>
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- Organization: SHAPE Technical Centre, NL
- References: <1992Aug15.200341.14887@cco.caltech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 11:51:30 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <1992Aug15.200341.14887@cco.caltech.edu> madler@cco.caltech.edu
- (Mark Adler) writes:
- >
- > >> I would also consider the environmental issue of
- > >> needless energy consumption.
- >
- > How about the environmental cost of building a new hard drive?
- > Not just the energy to forge the metals, but also the freon to
- > clean the circuit boards? Just as a zeroth order estimate, the
- > damage to the environment is proportional to the cost, so if
- > it's cheaper to leave the machine on than to buy a new hard
- > drive every two years, then it might be better to leave the
- > machine on.
-
- Good point. We have hard drives though that have been turned
- on and off for 7+ years and are still in use. I wonder how
- many hard drives are actually thrown away because they
- are defective (as opposed to too small to be usable :-))
-
- > Might be nice though if you could turn the monochrome monitor
- > off.
-
- How about unplugging it?
-
- > The big energy hog is the printer. If you're not turning your
- > printer off after use, either automatically or manually (the
- > command is /usr/etc/nppower off), then you really are needlessly
- > consuming energy. Not just in keeping the printer hot, but in
- > the air-conditioning to counter that heat source.
-
- Agreed. I think the system should power it up and down
- automatically.
-
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