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Authors: Howard Noble, Daniel Curtis and Kang Tang
Key takeaways
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- Two
- Three
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Chap 1 - Good time to act
It is irrelevant how much any of us agree that we need to reduce costs and greenhouse gas emissions, the only thing that matters to our budgets and the environment is whether we act on these beliefs. We cannot ignore energy prices any more, disparaging efficiency initiatives because the human resource cost is too high: "my time is too valuable to merit the tiny reduction in energy consumption that switching a computer off at the end of each working day". How can anybody know whether such a statement can be true, what is the long term price of a unit of greenhouse gas emissions?
Chap 2 - Things to do
Reducing energy consumption by turning computers reliably and safely to a low-power state is most definitely a worth while gesture to make, especially if everyone does it.
Chap 3 - Full life-cycle considerations
Chap 4 - The Oxford approach
Chap 5 - All the reasons why this is a good project to take on
- Save money
- Reduce greenhouse emissions
- Enhance brand
- Comply with legislation
- Staff morale
- Student perceptions
- External stakeholder perceptions
Chap 6 - Objections
- Myths:
- Turning a computer off increases the chance it will break
- Uses more energy to boot a system
- Good way of heating the room so reduce gas bills
- Screen savers save energy
- My time is too precious to wait for a computer to switch on
- Energy prices will fall again when we build the new generation of nuclear power plants
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