With the rising cost of energy everyone is looking to make cut backs on everything to save a little cash and help out the environment. Local Cooling is a free power management program to help you control the amount of power your computer consumes. Local Cooling is a wanting to create a community of 100 million PC user who want to cut back on CO2 gas emissions by cutting energy cost and reduction of greenhouse emissions. The utility shows detailed results of how much power you’re computer uses and gives you suggestions on how to save. After downloading the program you’ll be prompted to create an account on LocalCooling.com so you can compare your savings to other users.

After installing the app you can look at the My Power tab adn see how much wattage your computer and connected devices are using. On the General tab you can choose pre-selected power saving options or create a custom one. It gives you the option of viewing your statistics on the application or on their website.

Because of better power management options available through Vista and other similar applications Uniblue isn’t offering the download on their site, but you can still get it from download.com here. Just because it’s no longer on Uniblue’s website doesn’t mean the project is dead and if you’re interested in helping to save the environment you can complete their survey or join the Local Cooling community.

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