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Scientists recently warned us about how much our computer use is costing the planet, so it was inevitable that attention would turn to ways of making these machines a little bit more green. A Dutch student who helped pioneer the worlds first carbon-neutral computer room told Radio Netherlands Worldwide much of the project was simply based on common sense.
Ewoud de Kok is a fourth-year student in econometrics at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) who won a competition to help make the place more planet-friendly. After explaining his plan to cut carbon emissions he set about finding a few practical solutions.
Half the energy
The UvAs new computer room features special lighting with LED bulbs, which use half the energy of the ones they replaced. But the other main change is what Ewoud calls PC power management, which basically involves making sure the 250 computers are on sleep-mode when nobody is using them. So far, so straightforward. But it was an idea, says Ewoud, that was hard to put in to practise.
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