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Here’s an article of a differnt nature, no malware, no spam, no scams or any of the other usual stuff I write about, this ones about us all making a difference…

Now, don’t get me wrong I’m not a tree hugger, an environmentalist or at the other end of the scale, an anarchist, I’m just an average ‘geek’ that uses too many computers for too many hours of the day. And to help with the guilt of my using all this power and the resulting impact on the environment, I did a little digging and found a little tool yesterday which could well make a massive difference to the amount of carbon and CO2 emissions that I am responsible for; no it doesn’t mean I have to stop being full of hot air, or even stop breathing….Although that probably might help

All of us that use computers, either for work or at home are guilty of leaving them running when we are not always actually using them; this generates significant waste and emissions. To help reduce this you can tweak the power settings on your computer to turn off the display after so many minutes and power down the hard disks when they are not in use. But, how many of us actually do that?

To help make this easier, a useful tool has been released which can help you to save energy and therefore reduce emissions such as CO2 and if enough of us do this we can make a significant impact. So, instead of being part of the problem, we can be come part of the solution.

So, what is it?

It is simply a software tool that you install, and it looks a bit like one of those grid computing type of applications, such as Seti@home, BOINC, World Community Grid, etc. Here’s a picture of what it looks like when it is running:

So, instead of looking for alien signals you can actual do something that will help all of mankind, right here and right now.

I already have it installed on all my computers at home, and have already saved some energy, and I only installed it earlier today.

It is fully customisable, as you can see from these screenshots:

Imagine the impact if all large companies installed this on all their computersll as all home computer users! Not only would they save money [which the bean-counters/bill-payers would approve of], but they could also help to minimise the impact on the environment that their business and/or gaming, chatting, e-mailing or blogging makes too!

Go on you know it makes sense…

It is FREE and doesn’t contain any spyware or other malicious code. You can download it via this banner.

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