Well this is for all you techies out there. Which I most definitely am not, but my husband most definitely is. And those of you who know him will certainly vouch for this.
He is currently supply teaching at a very local school. And seemingly its going well (no brick has bounced off his back car window - but there's time yet.)
He's working in the ICT department and has been astonished to find out that they leave all the PC's on day and night - they are simply not turned off.
Now I know that this happens regularly, mainly in schools with old technology. If a PC takes - oh lets see about 3 years to log on - and you have 30, 6 year old kids sitting in front of them, you want them to come on quickly. Believe me. So you leave them on. Because it makes your life much much easier.
So off he went on his little mission to turn them all off. Thats a bit bigger than a small step - he turned 60 PC's and monitors off tonight!!
You may be wondering what MTF stands for. Well it's "Mean time to Failure" ie the average time a part will take to wear out (as long as those parts are left turned on.)
Really hoping you are still with me!
Basically, if you leave parts running all of the time they wear out far sooner. Net result: costly bills, high and unnecessary electricity waste levels and high costs replacing all the parts that need not have worn out.
A suggestion. Turn them all off. Well, get the kids to. Teach them why it's important to take care of our equipment, save electricity and save money all at the same time.
Simple.
(But make sure that you remember to switch them on before all those 7 year old's get there....)
Big up my hubbie x
2 comments:
hey Daisy- Go your husband!! Very impressed. I think that schools, businesses etc have lots to answer for. Not only are their actions/ inactions having major impact because of the sheer numbers of computers/ lightbulbs etc but also because they are an example to the people who work/ study there. It is pretty disheartening and demotivating to compulsively turn off all appliances at home including your tiny electric toothbrush knowing that you'll go in to work in the morning to a building full of on computers!
Your blog is fab,
keep it up! :)
PS- Oxfam turns everything off you'll be pleased to hear... and I don't have an electric toothbrush...
Lucy
Yeah I know Lucy it does drive me crazy too, but there are 60 more PC's and monitors being turned off every night now so we need to keep spreading the word.
Loved the Oxfam swap it party... when is it all happening again?
Daisy x
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