What do you envision these scripts to be doing that it would matter if it takes minutes, hours even, to start? Fire and forget. Granted, the environmental cost

What do you envision these scripts to be doing that it would matter if it takes minutes, hours even, to start? Fire and forget. Granted, the environmental cost to all that extra energy consumption may not be palpable. Then again, you're exactly choosing Python in the first place if you care about the environment.