No wager from me. Much as I regret it, rational thought and reasoned informed debate
does not necessarily go with green.

For example here in UK we are constantly being harangued to use public transport or
cycle on the basis that this will reduce pollution.
However the numbers reportedly show that trip for trip a cyclist produces more CO2
than a catalysed car and that a bus full of people produces more pollution [from the
bus] than it removes by those people leaving their cars at Home.


[So my logical green suggestion is to give 3 people a lift and for them to all to
hold their breathe on the drive to work....]


Mike Fenner
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen R. Gregory <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 10 August 1999 00:12
Subject: [TN] "Green" Technologies...


>Hi ya'll!
>
>This may be a little off-topic, but I've got a little wager with someone that
>the thought behind "Green" Technology is really a bust. You know for example,
>the monitors that shut themselves off after a certain period of time may well
>save a few fractions of a cent in power consumption, but the stress of
>powering down and up, and down and up, and so on, causes the life of the
>monitor to be considerably shortened.
>
>Somehow, this person has calculated that if everybody in the company shuts
>their computers off everynight, and then reboots them every morning, there
>will be a $3,500 a year savings in electricity. My take on it is that the
>$3,500 in electricity savings will be overshadowed by the cost of failed
>motherboards and associated hardware from the 'pooters powering up and
>down...am I out to lunch on this? (If I am, I owe a lunch...hehehe)
>
>-Steve Gregory-
>
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