Swat Down Vampire Power

May 14, 2008

Vampire power is the power that your electronics use when they are in standby mode. You know, things like the microwave, DVD players and yes, definitely your printer. Department of Energy, national residential electricity consumption in 2004 was 1.29 billion megawatt hours (MWh)—5% of which is 64m MWh. The wasted energy, in other words, is equivalent to the output of 18 typical power stations.
There is a movement afoot to encourage manufacturers to either remove or diminish the wattage of standby power, and Britain is moving fast to ban them altogether.

What can you do?
The first one is easy. If you only use your DVD once a week, un-plug it. If you don’t want to have to manage this yourself all over the house, and easier answwer is to get a Smart Power Strip. These turn off the power to the device when it senses you’re not using it.
Want to see how much power your devides are using when you’re not looking? Get a Watt Meter, you may be surprised at how much you could save by turning some things off.

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