{"id":2453,"date":"2011-07-23T10:56:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T14:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2011-07-23T10:56:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T14:56:40","slug":"granola-is-not-just-a-cereal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/granola-is-not-just-a-cereal\/","title":{"rendered":"Granola is not just a cereal"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re not tree huggers. Nope. Right now it’s 94 degrees with a heat \t\t\tindex of 107 – it’s hotter and more humid than the Amazon (really) \t\t\tright here in Northern Ohio today. If I were a tree hugger, I’d have \t\t\tmy air conditioner set at 85 and be walking around wearing a wet \t\t\ttowel. But my a\/c is set at a comfy 70 degrees and there it will stay. How \t\t\tmuch CO2 emission could I save by turning up the a\/c to 85? I don’t \t\t\tknow. Probably a lot. But right now my comfort matters more to me than C02 \t\t\temissions.<\/p>\n

But if I can save some energy without going out of my way, why not? \t\t\tThat’s what “Granola” is all about. You install \t\t\tit, get a password (they send you one) and you save energy. And \t\t\tGranola \t\t\tdoesn’t affect your computer’s performance even one little bit. I’ve \t\t\thad it running now for three hours, and I keep forgetting it’s \t\t\tthere. So far I’ve not saved any money, and only a fraction of a \t\t\tpound of CO2 emissions, but right now it’s cut the energy \t\t\tconsumption of my laptop by over 18%. To mean that not only means \t\t\tI’m using less juice, saving a little money, and best of all, when I \t\t\tneed to run on battery power only, my battery will last longer. And \t\t\tI’ve saved the atmosphere a few big belches of CO2. \t\t\tWhat’s wrong with that? Nothing at all. Call me a tree hugger if you \t\t\tlike, but saving money and extending battery life are good \t\t\tthings. If you don’t think they’re good things, I guess you won’t \t\t\tdownload and install Granola. Those of you who are tree huggers, \t\t\tpenny pinchers, or just want cut back on the energy consumption of \t\t\tyour desktop computers – or make your laptop battery last a little \t\t\tlonger – will be downloading Granola.<\/p>\n

Here’s what the tree-hugging developers of Granola have to say:<\/p>\n

“There are any number of great ways to help save the world. \t\t\tRecycling, eating locally, replacing your light bulbs, walking \t\t\teverywhere – these are all powerful ways to lower your cost to the \t\t\tenvironment, but they all cost YOU something in return, whether time \t\t\tor money. Furthermore, it can be difficult to visualize the effects \t\t\tof your actions. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to \t\t\tmeasurably reduce your environmental impact without a lot of cost or \t\t\twork?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Granola gives you a way to do just that. With Granola intelligent \t\t\tsoftware power management, you can reduce the energy consumption of \t\t\tyour laptops, PCs, and servers by 15-35% without any impact on the \t\t\tway you use these devices. Whether you use Granola as part of your \t\t\town personal quest to save the world, or as a way to help conserve \t\t\tin your business, you can know that you are part of a thriving \t\t\tcommunity of individuals and businesses worldwide all saving \t\t\tenergy.”<\/em><\/p>\n

You get the idea. We’ve been using this program for over 24 hours \t\t\tnow, and we’ve saved a cent or two in electricity – and some carbon \t\t\temissions – so we’re doing our share, right.<\/p>\n

Granola was going to be our freeware pick this week, but we found \t\t\tsomething that had more mass appeal, even though Granola should have \t\t\tmass appeal, we know people. People want instant things, and Granola \t\t\tisn’t really instant — it’s a marathon, not a sprint.<\/p>\n

But Granola almost made our freeware pick this week, so we’re adding \t\t\tGranola as a Windows tip. Save energy, increase your laptop battery life, and reduce your — oh! how I hate to say this – \t\t\tcarbon footprint.<\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

Granola works with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 \t\t\t(32bit\/64bit). It’s an 8.5MB download. Read more about and or download Granola from here<\/a> .<\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re not tree huggers. Nope. Right now it’s 94 degrees with a heat index of 107 – it’s hotter and more humid than the Amazon (really) right here in Northern Ohio today. If I were a tree hugger, I’d have my air conditioner set at 85 and be walking around wearing a wet towel. But my a\/c is\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[1334,1335,1336,1333,1332],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}