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Granola PC energy miser plugs in at CES 2012

Granola software does the equivalent of dimming the lights in your PC to save energy.

MiserWare, which developed Granola, will be one of the roughly 80 startup exhibitors at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. After operating quietly since its founding in 2007, the Virginia Tech spin-out is expected to show off its upcoming energy-saving products.

MiserWare's software works in the background on PCs and servers to ratchet down power without affecting the performance, according to CEO and co-founder Kirk Cameron. There's a free consumer version for Windows and Linux that cuts energy by about 35 percent, along … Read more

Green up your PC with Granola

If you could take 7 million cars off the road, do you think it would have a positive impact on the environment and energy use? If that doesn't sound like much, how about planting 900 million trees? Or tearing down 65 coal-fired power plants? That's what MiserWare claims Granola, its free power management tool, would save the equivalent of if every PC in the world used it to reduce their current energy use by just 10 percent. Granola uses dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) to throttle back your computer's power use when its load is low. … Read more