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Politics : The Exxon Free Environmental Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (770)	6/19/2007 8:15:10 AM
From: Ron	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 49007

"Ahem! Could You Please Unplug Me!" Cell phones may soon begin giving energy-saving instructions to their owners. It's not an entirely new idea, but a mobile industry task force led by Nokia is thinking about it more seriously than we thought they would. The taskforce is working on decreasing the environmental impact of the mobile technology industry. Though, in terms of power use, they're already quite slim, simply unplugging all cell chargers while they aren't in use could save as much energy as is used by 60,000 average European residences. To combat the problem, the taskforce is considering having cell phone's announce "Please unplug the charger," when the phone finishes charging. I'm not a huge fan of electronics that talk back, but I'm also not a fan of wasting wasted energy. Nokia says that the alerts will be in place on their phones by 2007. ecogeek.org