On 21/09/2007, Roger Searle wrote:
> Marginally on / off topic I guess...  I am interested in quantifying how
> much it costs to leave a computer running over night, and therefore what
> the power saving is per year to an organisation if computers that are
> otherwise left running all night are turned off via a schedule.

Two things to remember are:
 1) Computers in standby mode have a power factor of around 0.01
 2) Businesses pay for apparent power rather than actual power.

Yuri

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