Shut ‘er down

April 6th, 2009 at 06:09am Jennie Pollock

Do you leave your computer running at night when you leave work?

A new report estimates that half of the United States’ 108 million office PCs are not shut down properly, wasting $2.8 billion a year in energy and emitting 20 million tons of carbon dioxide (as much as 4 million cars).

Another “thinker” of a stat: If the world shut down all PCs for one night, it would save enough energy to light New York’s Empire State Building for more than 30 years.

Entry Filed under: Green business, Global warming