--------- #1391 - How Much Are Those Remotes Costing You?
- Attachments : Cell Phone recycle pile.
- How would you like to save 15 cents on every dollar you spend on electricity?
- March 12, 2007, I attended a lecture by Dr. Alan Meier, Lawrence Lab Berkeley. He is an expert on “ standby power”. Stand by power is electricity consumed by all products that remain partially on when their main purpose is turned off. Anything operating with a remote must stay on in standby waiting for someone to push a button. There are 50,000,000 garage door openers in the U.S. consuming 3.5 watts around the clock.
- Any transformer plugged in the wall is using electricity whether you have your phone connected or not. Every toothbrush charger. Every microwave oven with a display. There are many homes paying good money for those two little green lights to flash and do nothing. Every dishwasher. Every computer. Any electronic device that has an LED is consuming electrical power on standby. You probably have 40 to 150 of these all around your home.
- If you add up all the leaking electricity it consumes 6 to 12 one billion-watt power plants are just for standby power. In the world standby power is responsible for 1% of the carbon dioxide emissions. The average California home is consuming 500 kilowatt per year, or about $60 per year. That is more than your refrigerator uses to keep food cold. Standby power by definition does nothing, it just leaks electricity. 15 to 20% of all of California’s electric power is lost this way.
- Un plug those transformers when not in use.
- Turn electronics off, kill the standby, if not needed.
- President Bush has issued an Executive Order to all manufacturers that their designs should have standby consumption of no more than 1 watt. Today most appliances consume 20 to 40 watts around the clock.
- Standby power is an easy problem to fix. Power management is readily available in electronics. Most manufacturers just do try to be power conscious. They are selling price profit conscious not lifetime cost conscious. After all they are not paying the electric bills. Or, are they?
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