Facts & figures

[Dr. Koushik Dutta]

If all office employees in UK use just one stapler pin less a day, about 100 tonnes of iron can be saved annualy!

[gautam pandey]

my god! what an amazing statistic! it just goes to show.. every little individual effort can go a long way.

[Dr. Koushik Dutta]

This one is from a forwarded e-mail, regarding a speech by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (former President of India), on saving of power. I am not sure about the authenticity of this message, but the facts presented are worth thinking about.
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To all those who do not TURN OFF their PCs, ACs & Lights before leaving the office....

Most of use from the IT field do one thing before leaving for the day from office, Press Ctrl+Alt+Del and leave happily. That means your PC is still ON.

One Normal PC in Sleep Mode (Hibernation) will consume 35Watts/hour. Based on this let's do a small calculation.

For one week, 24*7=168 Hours. Of this if we consider that we are working for 68 hours, then the PC is in Sleep Mode for 100 hours a week.

For one month, 4*100=400 hours. In a normal IT office, if we assume approximately 250 PCs are there, 250*400=1,00,000 hours (Sleep Mode), So power wasted in an office in a month is 1,00,000*35=3500KWH or units. If the charge per unit is Indian Rs 6, then totally the wastage value is approximately Indian Rs 21,000.

Here the sad thing is not the money loss to the company but the power loss to the country. (Hope no company bothered about this procedure of keeping the system in sleep mode)

Apart from the loss to the country, we need to think of the efforts people are putting for producing the power in Mines, Thermal Stations, Hydro Electric Stations etc. If this is to continue, the cost of unit will go up, at one stage, we will not get power even if we are ready to pay any cost.

So, before leaving office, take some time to shut down the PC and do some favour to the COUNTRY amd the organisation.

If you feel that this point is to be considered, forward this to all your friends.

[gautam pandey]

i completely agree.. not only computers but all electronics on stand by consume power and though it is verry little it all adds up to a very large amount. TV, VCRs, DVD PLayers, Music Systems, Stabilisers when not being used,UPS, Chargers etc

[Snigdha Kar]

Also think about power shortage. If we reduce our demand, the supply will automatically increase without setting a new thermal power plant which burn coal to produce electricity and pollutes the nature with massive amount of CO2 emission.