Good news - screen savers are toast.Turns out those flying toasters were contributing to a worldwide problem -- global warming. On modern (LCD) monitors, they're not even necessary. They just drag on resources.
So, turn off the flying toasters and select "blank" from your screen saver menu. (This will make a blank screen come up instead of your regular screen saver.)
Factoids:
- A screensaver can use 100-300 watts of power. Sleep mode uses 10 watts.
- When Australian phone company Telstra removed corporate screen savers from the 36,000 computers in its offices, it estimated the CO2 cut to be equal to taking 140 cars off the road for a year.
- Flying toasters haven't been funny in, like, 10 years anyway.
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After a previous post on this web-site about phantom energy, I started unplugging my microwave, powerstrip from behind the tv, the powerstrip from behind the computer, and my cell charger. I've saved about $20 - $30 per electric bill, doing this every night before I go to bed. This post about screen savers didn't mention the monetary benefit so, I thought I would. Check out that previous post for more info. Also, we switched the flying toasters off our computer screen prior to that when we realized that our new flat screen monitor was having the images BURNT in!
Wow! $20-30 per bill is a huge savings! Congratulations!
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