---- Alex Dean wrote: > Well, I saw the darker side of it once. ... They went about a mile > across the border and went straight into the ground. I asked a guy at Data Doctors about AzSTRUT, which accepts any kind of old electronics. He said STRUT has someone who really does "the right thing" with the waste stuff. I didn't pursue it, but he sounded really sure that that was part of STRUT's mission and they took it seriously. > In another vein, even better than recycling is reducing what > you consume. Do you really NEED that new machine, ... ? Interesting thought. I have this nice PC that runs all the time, sounding like a vacuum cleaner. My wife has a more efficient one that also runs all the time. It's controversial whether desktop disks last longer if you shut them down or let them run all the time; I've stuck with the keep-em-running principle and that has worked for me. We turned my wife's system off for a week when we took a trip last year, and doggone if I didn't have to rebuild it with a new power supply when we got back. The software was corrupted and I lost two weeks of evenings setting all the apps back up. I definitely have enough computing power to last a long time, but I would like to move on to something radically more power efficient (and quieter). I have an 86 GB and a 130 GB hard drive in service, so that's going to suck some power regardless. In another few years the hybrids will be saving us gobs of power. So, if I should be able to downsize from 450W to 60W for my PC, the old PC would go out to suck juice somewhere else. Ya think maybe it could semi-retire, and run fewer hours per week? :-) Vic --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss