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Edison saves PC power
VERDIEM announced the release of Edison, a free energy monitoring application that helps Vole users take control of a PC's energy consumption.
A company press release noted that worldwide PC energy consumption is currently at a staggering 506 billion kWh per year, which correlates to an average of 1,000 lbs of carbon dioxide.
According to Lorie Wigle, President of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, Edison will help consumers “make a real difference in the way they manage the power consumption of the technology they use”.
Kevin Klustner, Verdiem's President and CEO, explained that the vast majority of computers users have little idea that they are “needlessly throwing away 80 per cent of their PC's energy”.
Klustner also claimed that if just 1 per cent of all PCs were loaded with Edison, the potential environmental impact could be reduced by 7 billion pounds of CO2.
Alternatively, you could just try loading Linux. µ
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www.verdiem.com/edison/
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All it does it adjust the display, hard drive and suspend timeouts that anyone could do in control panel. I was thinking it was something to analyse the hardware in the machine, adjust memory, CPU and GPU timings and cut power consumption. It's just a glorified windoze control panel applet, and you have to give it an email address to activate. Rubbish!
Do people under 30 even care about any other measurement other than metric?
So.. what does it do..exactly? The URL does not give many clues.
Why? I show you: You have to download a 24 MB setup-file, for an 7 MB install. WTF is that? I must register an account to use it. But you can't connect through an Proxy. Haha, Nice try. PS: I run the Rightmark CPU Utilities, Performance on Demand-Setting. That's way better then the Windows-internal EIST-Support.
Needs IE and .NET to do a half-assed job of what you can already do with the config utilities that ship with 'doze.
type in google: 1000 lbs in kilogram and it'll answer 1000 pounds = 453.59237 kilograms Incidentally, since humans put out more CO2 than many machines if all women would all shut for an hour each year we'd compensate for that 1000 pounds easily :x I'm still anonymous right? ;)
You could probably replicate the function of this software in a very small program... or even in a script. What utter junk