{"id":82,"date":"2006-05-16T08:31:44","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T08:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/16\/switch-off-to-save-the-planet\/"},"modified":"2006-05-16T08:31:44","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T08:31:44","slug":"switch-off-to-save-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/16\/switch-off-to-save-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch off to Save the Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computacenter.com\/press-releases\/2006\/green_pc0506.asp\">Recent research<\/a> from Computacenter and Fujitsu Siemens finds that the 200 largest UK companies waste \u00c2\u00a361m a year on unneeded electricity by using power-hungry, inefficient PCs.  This wasted electricity equates to over 2.8 million kWh of energy.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the recommendations from Computacenter and Fujitsu Siemens are that these businesses should throw out their desktops and replace them with &#8220;Green-PCs&#8221; made and supplied by, say, Computacenter or Fujitsu Siemens.  Though, I&#8217;m not so sure that throwing out thousands of perfectly good desktop computers is that great for the environment either!<\/p>\n<p>In fact the report also finds that &#8220;more than a third (37%) of workers don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t switch off PCs when they leave the office&#8221; and &#8220;by adopting green IT equipment and switching off desktops when not in use the top 200 companies will make annual savings of around \u00c2\u00a3305,000 each&#8221;.  One of the largest UK corporations could save up to \u00c2\u00a32m by adopting such policies.<\/p>\n<p>So for those in a rush to get out the door at 5pm, or who forget to switch off their machine, why not create a simple Macro Scheduler macro which shuts down the PC automatically at, say, 6pm:<\/p>\n<pre>ShutDownWindows>0<\/pre>\n<p>Just in case you might be working late you could add a 30 second warning allowing you to cancel:<\/p>\n<pre>Let>ASK_TIMEOUT=30000\nLet>Prompt=Shutting Down in 30 Seconds. No to Abort, Yes to Shutdown now.\nAsk>Prompt,cont\nIf>cont=YES\n  ShutDownWindows>0\nEndif<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research from Computacenter and Fujitsu Siemens finds that the 200 largest UK companies waste \u00c2\u00a361m a year on unneeded electricity by using power-hungry, inefficient PCs. This wasted electricity equates to over 2.8 million kWh of energy. Of course the recommendations from Computacenter and Fujitsu Siemens are that these businesses should throw out their desktops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}