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| Time: 01:25 EST/06:25 GMT | News Source: News.com | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Microsoft announced Wednesday that people looking to save energy and reduce the environmental impact of their computer should turn off their screensavers. A PC running a screensaver consumes more energy than an idling PC in sleep or hibernating mode, according to a statement from Dean DeWhitt, the director of Microsoft's Windows Kernel team. In fact, the screensaver-running PC consumes the same amount of electricity as a 100-watt light bulb left on around the clock for one year. That is about $80 in power that releases about 1,350 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, according to Microsoft. | ||
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| #1 By 32132 (142.32.208.231) at 3/22/2007 12:39:01 PM |
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"according to the Nashville Electricity Service, Gore's 20-room, 8-bathroom home "devoured" nearly 221,000kWh per year, more than 20 times the national household average. "
When the Goracle cuts his usage down to normal levels and stops flying in his private jet, I'll think about turning off my PC. |
| #2 By 32132 (142.32.208.231) at 3/22/2007 1:16:24 PM |
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100 watt * 24 * 365 / 1000 = 876kWh
221,000 / 876 = 252 PC's Why does the Goracle need 252 PC's running 24 hours a day , 365 days a year? (let alone the energy consumed by his private jet and convoy of SUV's while criss-crossing the country telling lies about global warming?) |
| #3 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at 3/22/2007 1:44:08 PM |
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Simple, Al Gore is a self-appointed member of the ruling nomenclatura.
The restrictions, stiff fines and diminished lifestyle he would impose upon people like all of us, do not apply to him and his elitist friends - they justify their positions by convincing themselves that their personal behaviors, while inconsistent with those they demand of others, are necessary to affect the changes they seek and fully impose their will on the rest of us - at our expense, I might add. Co2, which actually has the reverse effect on planetary warming - conflicting that which is held out as fact by Mr. Gore, is produced in greater, or lesser amounts according to cycles, which appear to run along 1500 year intervals and are influenced more by decaying vegetation and algae in our oceans [99%] vice human activity [1%]. 1000+ years ago, for example, Greenland, was well... "green" and farmed. It is not today, as it is covered in ice. It may well be again sometime in the future, but it will have precious little to do with Co2, much less human activity. It will, as NotParker states, have everything to do with the amount of solar energy reaching the planet - much of in non-visible forms - and where, the presence of Co2 in larger percentages would actually slow cyclical warming trends. Mr. Gore is not daffy - he's smarter than that - he's marketing himself and GW is his platform. Does he suspend disbelief? I'm not qualified to say, but offering a lay opinion, and based upon his behaviors and apparent sincerity, I would offer that he does in fact believe his own "Bovine Scatology" - which of course makes him no different than the rest of us - he's just better at convincing many people that his "brand" is better than our own. Sleeping a PC is a totally different matter - making sense for far more personal economic reasons. |
| #4 By 32132 (142.32.208.231) at 3/22/2007 2:19:43 PM |
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Carbon Offsets = Indulgences
"Rejoice! We have a way out. Our guilty consciences appeased, we can continue to fill up our SUVs and fly round the world without the least concern about our impact on the planet. How has this magic been arranged? By something called “carbon offsets”. You buy yourself a clean conscience by paying someone else to undo the harm you are causing. The Co-op’s holiday firm Travelcare has just started selling offsets to its customers. If they want to fly to Spain, they pay an extra £3. Then they can forget about their contribution to climate change. The money will be spent on projects in the developing world, such as building wind farms and more efficient cooking stoves. In August, BP launched its “targetneutral” scheme, enabling customers to “neutralise the CO2 emissions caused by their driving”(1). The consequences of an entire year’s motoring can be discharged for just £20. Again, your money will be invested in the developing world – “a biomass energy plant in Himachal Pradesh; a wind farm in Karnataka, India and an animal waste management and methane capture program in Mexico” – and you need have no further worries about what you and BP are doing to the atmosphere (or, for that matter, to the people of West Papua or the tundra in Alaska). It sounds great. Without requiring any social or political change, and at a tiny cost to the consumer, the problem of climate change is solved. Having handed over a few quid, we can all sleep easy again. This is not the first time that such schemes have been sold. In his book The Rise of the Dutch Republic, published in 1855, John Lothrop Motley describes the means by which the people of the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries could redeem their sins. “The sale of absolutions was the source of large fortunes to the priests. ... God’s pardon for crimes already committed, or about to be committed, was advertised according to a graduated tariff. Thus, poisoning, for example, was absolved for eleven ducats, six livres tournois. Absolution for incest was afforded at thirty-six livres, three ducats. Perjury came to seven livres and three carlines. Pardon for murder, if not by poison, was cheaper. Even a parricide could buy forgiveness at God’s tribunal at one ducat; four livres, eight carlines.”(2) Just as in the 15th and 16th centuries you could sleep with your sister and kill and lie without fear of eternal damnation, today you can live exactly as you please as long as you give your ducats to one of the companies selling indulgences. It is pernicious and destructive nonsense." http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2006/10/19/selling-indulgences/ |
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