Thursday, July 8, 2010

Random Thought: Network LED's

Now granted, LED's take 0.07 volts to fire (if my engineering memory is still intact) but how much energy would you think is spent every day by those two blinking lights at the back of your computer that tell you that your network connection is alive?

Multiply that by the 5 billion computers that are active on the planet every day, now how much energy is consumed by that... How much could be saved just by turning those lights off... Not as much as turning off all the computers in the world at night, but my computer takes 30 minutes to boot up, so I'm not willing to turn it off any more than anyone else is...:)

Still... food for thought...

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