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Edison Helps You Green Your PC
by Lee Mathews Aug 13th 2008 at 10:00AM
Rising energy costs and environmental concerns have caused just about all of use to take a good hard look at our usage habits. Verdiem's Edison helps your conservation efforts by picking up where your Windows power saving features leave off.You may already be familiar with Local Cooling, another similar application. Edison won't hibernate or shut your PC off like Local Cooling will, but it will turn off your screen and hard drive, and suspend your PC to achieve savings.
Set up your work schedule and choose your power savings plan. Edison lets you create different plans for work and non-work times, and you can either use one of nine preset savings plans or customize your own.
While scheduling is a great feature, I'm not convinced it makes Edison a better option than Local Cooling. Edison is a much bigger download, consumes almost four times as much memory, and requires activation.
Either way, grab one of these apps and make your PC a little more environmentally friendly. Every little bit helps!
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Peter said 10:48AM on 8-13-2008
If you want real savings check out Auto Power on & Shutdown http://www.lifsoft.com/
It can actually hibernate and wake up your machine on any schedule you want. I have my home file/print server automatically hibernate at night and while I'm at work. Saves at least 12 hours of power a day.
I'm not sure how they can schedule the machine to come out of hibernation, but it really does work.
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PT said 12:05PM on 8-13-2008
Been using LocalCooling for a while now, and it works great
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Michael40505 said 3:13PM on 8-13-2008
You folks cannot be serious about this can you? You sound like the people trading out their light bulbs for the compact fluorescent. If people think this will ever make a dent in their energy bills; let be serious. If you think you are saving the planet; wake up.
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Peter said 8:00PM on 8-13-2008
Michael40505 - So you would prefer everyone do nothing because it doesn't achieve some magic savings level you're looking for?
While it might or might not be helping the planet, turning things off when you're not using them and using energy efficient lights and appliances absolutely does cut my electric bill.
hazard said 3:38AM on 8-14-2008
A friend of mine recently setup SlugOS on a router as his torrent box so he could turn off his PC overnight and ended up saving around 3kW per month. That's a reasonable power saving in anyones book.
@Michael40505 .. maybe you should try an understand what you are talking about before making a flaming idiot of yourself.
phacops said 6:50PM on 8-15-2008
Michael40505 - you sound like one of the people that don't believe in global warming... and - I'll bet you don't use CF bulbs either.
I'm sorry there are people that think with gasoline fumes clouding their thoughts - our children are going to be paying for all this for a loooooong time.
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