I've bought a little gadget that you can plug into your electrical socket to measure how much electricity is being used. I'm going to use this to answer some of the questions I have around recommendations I have seen bandied around -
- How much energy really does a mobile phone charger use when it is just left plugged in?
- Or when the phone has finished charging?
- Is it better to turn your PC off, or put it on standby (or hibernate), avoiding the allegedly power-hungry start-up cycle?
- Is the standby LED on your TV really that bad?
1 comments:
hey pippa
i am looking into buying a similare device (which goes under the name kill-a-watt) to figure ot just how bad standby is for the environment.
where did you get yours, how much did it cost and what are your experiences with?
and, ultimately, what did you find out in terms of power consumption of idle mobile phone chargers and son on??
cheers
benjamin
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