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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