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Fight global warming for free with your PC
Sunday, February 04, 2007
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you'll notice a new button in the sidebar, and some new banners at the foot of every post which promote Local Cooling. This is an initiative aimed at getting 100 million people to download and use their software in order to help fight against global warming.
The Local Cooling Website states "...it [the software] automatically optimizes your PC's power consumption by using a more effective power save mode."
The software itself is a quick download and when installed sits in your system tray (that's the one in bottom right hand corner of your desktop with the clock and other icons). Right-clicking on the icon brings up a small window telling you in realtime how much energy your computer has saved by using the software. To enable you to understand this more easily, you are given the amount of energy in the equivalent of trees, gallons of oil and in kilowatt hours.
You can then use the software to easily edit your power settings - how many minutes of inactivity before switching down the monitor, spinning down the hard disk(s) and finally, to switch off the PC. Changing the settings is no more difficult than one click, or you can choose a custom profile to better suit your computing habits. You will then see the estimated saving in energy you are making.
As well as doing your bit to save the planet, think of the money that you'll save over a month, year or even decade!
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