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State stuck with computer costs in Rudd's revolution | The Australian
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SCHOOLS in South Australia have complained they are being short-changed under Kevin Rudd's education revolution, forcing them to buy cheaper laptops and spend up to 30per cent of their grants on Microsoft licensing and government fees.
South Australian public schools are paying $250 for licensing fees for each new computer and a $40 state government administration fee. They also pay $6 a student to cover existing licenses. Replacement computers do not attract the $250 fee.
It is understood the NSW, Victorian and West Australian governments will absorb the licensing fees, passing the entire $1000 grant to schools.
The states have been negotiating bulk purchasing agreements to enable them to buy computers for just $500.
An Energy Diet for Power-Hungry Household PCs - NYTimes.com
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The potential savings in both dollars and pollution is huge, analysts say, when the estimated one billion PCs in use globally are taken into account. The research firm Gartner estimates that 40 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions resulting from information technology and telecommunications are attributable to PCs. Data center computers account for 23 percent, and the rest is attributable to printers and telecommunications equipment.
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“There are large potential savings beyond what Energy Star can do,” he said.
The free software, called Edison, is a consumer version of the PC energy-saving software sold to corporate customers by Verdiem, which is financed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a leading venture capital firm and an aggressive investor in green technologies, and other venture investors.
1E's NightWatchman - Reduces energy costs,automatically shut down PCs,Energy consumption reporting
Earthbeat:: 21 February 2004 - The Great Apes Survival Project
So in Africa there’s this issue of Coltan, which is Colombo Tantalite, an ore which produces an element of tantalum that we use in our mobile phones and computers and play stations and that has led to a gold rush
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