computers dont use a significant amount more power then, say, a stereo receiver. and people leave those on almost always... older technology is the s---; keep it running

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A monitor absolutely uses quite a bit of electricity, CRT's being worse than most stereo receivers. Even LCD's, which use 40% the electricity of a CRT, still is a major source of power consumption. "people leave those on almost always" Are you saying that most people screw the environment up far more than they realize for no reason? Shocking! And I hope you're not saying since a majority of people do something, it makes it right. ;-) Here in the US, we pollute the earth more per capita than any other country by a landslide. We do it because resources aren't scarce here, and the negative impacts we have on the environment are gradual, so we dispute them or are in denial about what we're doing. *cough* Global warming! *cough* Case in point, you saying people leave their receivers on all the time. In Britain, there's a major push to conserve electricity by actually turning off your monitor, not the auto power down most people do when they turn their PC's off. The reason is that "auto-shut down" isn't turning the monitor off, but putting the monitor in standby mode, which uses electricity at a reduced amount, but still uses some. Multiply that out by all the people doing it across a population, and it's a major waste of electricity. Power being more scarce in Britain, there's a push to do common sense conservation. In the US, nope. We got plenty of coal to keep burning to generate more power, etc., nevermind the additional pollutants we are introducing. Now, you're probably thinking I'm a tree hugging liberal environmentalist, but I'm not. But I am in favor of common sense things to eliminate complete wastes of electricity, even if our resources aren't scarce. Screensavers instead of power saving is a great example. You don't freaking need a screensaver during periods of inactivity. I even push people to actually hit their monitor buttons to turn it off because there simply isn't a reason not to when you're not using the monitor for long periods of time other than you're too forgetful or lazy to do it, both of which are bad reasons. On the flip side, I actually encourage people to leave their machines on to auto-update their machines, etc. Please help survivors of Hurricane Katrina. www.redcross.org

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Hi all Hero ;) "Power being more scarce in Britain,( omg )there's a push to do 'common sense' (rofl we have Mp's u know) conservation." blimey save the squirrel, we import French elec power Australian coal and Russian gas & somebodys dodgy spent U rods nudge nudge :) cheaper than making it ourselves , doh ,dont ask.. twas' Thatcher that done it. and *every 4 mins we fill an olympic swimming pool equivalent in size with household garbage, creating methane*, global warming at its best. Global warming eh? just gets cloudier & wetter here btw. When vista hits retail we'll be under 18 ft water, pc not needed by then, we retroevolve into dolphins, so long & thanks for the fish. right wheres my meds.. *Sunday times rag

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