JCsChild,
Most computers pull at least 2 Amps.
If your electricity costs $0.10 USD per Kilowatt hour, 2 Amps would cost you $0.02 per hour, close to $0.58 per day.
This adds up to $210 per year per PC. Now, for your work PC, we can presume that you probably use it close to 2000 hours a year.
If there are 8,760 hours in a year it means you are wasting about 77% of the cost of running the PC. This comes out to around $162 USD per year just for the work PC.
I presume your home PC gets less use, but you would know.
According to this site...
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080323182611AAslEPRI'm being generous to assume 2 Amps.
At this site, you can sponsor an African Child for $35 USD per month (I do it).
http://africanchildrenschoir.com/help/sponsorship/ So, if you just turned your computers off when you weren't using them, you could be a life saver.
And the threat to our planet of the Electricity usage hasn't even been factored in!
Aids has been awful in Africa. It leaves villages with only the youth and the elderly. No adult aged people to carry the load. It's the exact opposite of so many of humanity's threats which take the children and the old.
Or you could get a nice microphone. :-)
post edited by gswitz - 2014/05/13 20:29:41