Did you know? The average desktop PC wastes nearly half of the electricity it consumes as heat. Using the power management features on your computer can save nearly half a ton of CO2 and more than $60 a year in energy costs. With a few mouse clicks, your computer can be set to automatically go to “sleep” when it’s not in use.

A recent WPS study of Microsoft Office distribution concluded that "digital delivery reduced total tonnes of carbon emissions by 88%. Although it may be better to consider actual savings for most digital downloads to be more like 65% to 70%, there is clearly a significant energy savings opportunity for home office and business users to be achieved, if they will use this capability.

The weeks energy data has been collected and the results posted in our article Energy Saving for a Laptop Computer We do encourage you to read it. Like us, you may be surprised at how energy efficient a recently purchased, energy star rated, laptop computer actually is.

There are a number of articles to be found on the Internet that discuss ways to save energy when using a laptop computer. I thought it might be useful to publish the exact amounts of energy used over a 7 day period, 5 working days and 2 week-end days, showing the facts.

Personal Computer power management software supplier E 1 claims that there is 2.8 Billion dollars to be saved in the US alone. This amount was picked up by Mid-Market Innovators' analysis in their recent review.