Electronit vampires
April 23, 2008 ·
Reading this article made me wonder how much money we spend at our house due to laptop power strips left plugged in, and toaster ovens with their little useless clocks, and cordless drills with their batteries maintaining a charge for that one time a month they’ll be used.
The latest estimates show 5 percent of electricity used in the United States goes to standby power, a phenomenon energy efficiency experts find all the more terrifying as energy prices rise and the planet warms. That amounts to about $4 billion a year.
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