If -- like many of us bloggers -- you find it difficult to remove yourself from the spod box for even half an hour, this idea will be as a personal challenge as it is an environmental gesture.
The brains behind Carbon Rally have calculated that the electricity required to keep a PC running overnight generates up to 51 lbs of CO2 every month, and the combined energy wasted by consumer electronics in standby mode is as high as 10% of all residential power consumption in developed countries.
Much of this is because many people still put their PC into 'hibernate' mode instead of switching it off over night, so they're asking you to 'give your computer a rest' and make sure it's fully unplegged each night for the next month. It's a gesture that won't hurt a bit (unless you're incorrigably attached to World of Warcraft, I suppose), and if adopted on a large scale, will cut back on a shedload of C02.
[Via popgadget]
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