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Hey everyone, I am Eric Rochow and this Real World Green. Today, we are going to talk about how to green your computer a little bit more. Do you use a screen saver on your computer? A screen saver is when you walk away from your computer for a little bit and it is idle, all of a sudden comes up a slide show of nature or maybe your family pets or maybe if you are really a techy guy, the matrix things comes down remember that – the green white thing. Anyway, you know what I mean.
Screen savers are actually not green. Why is that? It is because screen savers require the computer to use its processor. Ideally, when you are not using your computer, you should have your computer in sleep mode and the monitor should be in sleep mode as well. There are some settings in your computer that you can change that. When you put your monitor to sleep and the computer to sleep, you save a lot of energy.
Also, at the end of the day, you should turn off your monitor and your computer. Do not let them run all night because that is taking energy. I got a news in fact here from the Department of Energy and I had to write it down. Their energy start program states this, “That if every business in United States use the sleep function on their monitors instead of screen savers, we would save $600 million in energy.” I mean, consider that, that is a big electric bill.
So put your monitor and your computer to sleep instead of using a screen saver. I mean, I know you like the matrix thing or pictures of your pets, I mean what is not to like about pictures of pets. But it is not as green, all right. So if you want some hints as to how to adjust the Control Panel on you computer, come to the Green House, we will have some links to how it choose, all right, green-house.tv.
So, be green, hop on with your computer. Say goodbye to that matrix thing, and make it a great day. I will see you.
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