I am pretty convinced that majority of the global population will not give up letting their computers open while they are not using it. The result? Millions of kilowatts lost to unnecessary heat and CPU computing time.

So why don’t computer producers preinstall some distributed computing programs (e.g. Stanford University’s Folding @ Home project) and give the users the choice to opt-out from the project, rather than today’s opt-in setting?

My words are especially emphasized for Sony, which overloads its laptops with trial versions of several software packages such as Sony Vegas, MS Office and Norton.

The catch here is that, the best thing an individual can do for environment is to shut down the computer while not in use. But if you won’t do it, then make that energy loss a little bit meaningful…