Rengel requested me to blog about this article, so here it goes.  Rengel, you will have to clarify whether you are pro- or anti-screen savers in the comments.

This is actually a relatively heart-felt article with a lot of good intentions wrapped into it.  The problem is that the majority of the people reading Yahoo! Green already realize that a glowing monitor turned on uses a lot more power than one turned off.  They might even have one of those fancy green power management systems that cuts off any residual power to the monitor, as well.

The main problem with this article is that the type of people with a blazing fire screen saver are not the type of people reading Yahoo! Green.  They are truck-drivin, Busch-drinkin, ECW-watching, cow-tipping suburbanites.  And, they enjoy making love by the fake fire.  So, why does Don Willmott, forecast earth correspondent, want to take that away from them?  Let the people have their fun.

As a followup, turn your computer  and monitor off when you leave work or home.  It makes a difference.

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