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How to lower your electricity bills

Electric companies all over the country are raising their rates due to higher prices in both natural gas and oil based fuels. Just click here to view today's 1,650 results of "raising electric rates".

Business owners (and homeowners that are not gaming or doing high-end graphics) can fight back — they can lower their electricity bills.

After the development and successful marketing of the Asus Eee PC ultra-small laptop, PC manufacturers are of course copying the Eee, but there are also copiers of the Eee PC in desktop form. And of course, smaller equals less electricity used.

Starting with Asus, here is there desktop version of the Eee PC.

Then the MSI Wind mini desktop.

Both of the above start off with both WiFi and wired network capabilities, a small hard drive and plenty of power for business or basic Internet browsing, picture storage, etc. and run in the area of $2-400.00.

Another mini desktop that we have been successfully been using for the last year is the Koolu appliance. It is the size of a cable-modem or router, has no fans, yet runs very cool and we have had no troubles with the unit.

Any of the above units will use around 10 watts of power or less, as opposed to a mid-size desktop computer which will use 1-200 watts.

Other actions you can take to lower your electricity rates are:

1. Use an LCD monitor. The old CRT units use 3-4 times the power of an LCD.
2. Actually TURN OFF all electronic gear when not in use.
   (Business owners: DO NOT turn off your servers or switches.)
   The reason for turning them off is that these same devices in "standby mode" still use electric.
3. To keep your building cool, install a ventilation system that will pull cool air in during the night with fans only, then your building will not need as much air conditioning use during the day. And you can reverse this in cooler weather by pulling in warm air from the outside during the day. (Note that I am not an air conditioning expert, this is simple logic.)

There are many more ideas that I'm sure you can find on the web somewhere, but keep it logical, ok? Don't go spending $6,000 so that you can save 8 cents per month.

And if you need help with finding a small computer that will work with your requirements, call us. We are here to help.

Cheers!
Dan Renner, Editor
Los Angeles Computerhelp Computer Networking News

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