My computer - helping to stop climate change
Last spring the BBC launched the BBC Climate Change experiment, which involved downloading a program onto my computer to run a climate simulation experiment in the background while the computer was on and I was using it. Over 250,000 people downloaded the software to run the experiment, and the results will be broadcast in a program presented by Sir David Attenborough on Sunday evening on BBC1.
This experiment involves using all that untapped computing power by users spread all over the world - two-thirds were in the UK, but the other third were from 170 different countries. The point was to do more testing, but to economize on supercomputer testing time.
The BBC experiment itself has ended, but you can still download the program to run from climateprediction.net, and it will continue to work on climate change modelling. Full project details and instructions are explained on their website.
(But this is not a reason to leave your computer on 24/7 - to say that it's busy involved in climate-saving modelling (nice try). Turn your computer off when you're not using it and the program will get the time it needs during the hours that your machine is already on!!)
posted by Aber Environment and Ethics @ 3:03 pm
2 Comments:
Microsoft's new operating system Windows Vista is by default more power-saving than it's predecessors :-)
Considering how many PCs run Windows around the world, small changes like that can make a big difference!
Hello, great site, I found a lot of useful information here, thanks a lot for Your work!
With the best regards!
Jimmy
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