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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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