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Standby Electronics a Waste?
gnunick writes to tell us BBC News is reporting that UK citizens waste quite a bit of electricity each year by leaving electronic gadgets on standby or charging. Critics are arguing that standby mode on electronics are completely unnecessary and should be removed for a number of reasons. From the article: "To put it another way, the entire population of Glasgow could fly to New York and back again and the resulting emissions would still be less than that from devices left in sleep mode."
Believe me, there are more and more gadgets around that are a waste of energy when running as well. ;)
What kind of planes are you speaking of British planes?
In America, we do things right. It'd take, what, two or three SUV Planes (most preferably Hummers, F350s or something else GM or Ford) to ship that many people.
Jeez, Europeans these days always downsizing everything from planes to mini coopers to bathing suits.
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Either way, you New Yorkers reading this wouldn't want the Entire population of Glasgow in your city ;o)
Anyone wondered if the light of the fridge gets off when you close it?
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Transformers are equally culpable of silently sipping power.
No kidding. The global Energon crisis is all their fault. I have it on good authority that the standby mode on Megatron's fusion cannon consumes a gigawatt every second.
-Stephen
Conference rooms in my office building have PIR movement detectors to switch on lights. When we developed problems with our mains power supply (too many computers and aircon units in the building) I suggested we use them all over the place.
One day I went past my managers office. He was sitting at his desk in the dark. If he stops moving for long enough the lights go off.
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You think we're downsizing planes?
Just wait 'till Chirac turns up in his nice new presidential A380. "Hey is that Airforce One? What a cute little plain that 747 was".
A380 - When a SUV gets too cramped.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
... what would happen if all those Glaswegians actually did fly to New York. I have a feeling it would be much worse than some wasted kilowatt hours.
I've been in office bathrooms where they had motion detectors set for too short a timeout period. Sit on the toilet for a few minutes and the entire bathroom goes dark. Very unsettling. From my pants-down sitting position I've waved my arms or swung the stall door to get the lights to turn on so I wipe up and get out of there...
Congrats and thank you for leaving more energy for me to use! ;)
After all I need this Overclocked, Peltier chiped, four cooling fans, two monitors, TV output, 300watt sterio amped, video switched, VCR input (now in standby), CED input (also in standby), Laser Disk (also in standby) input, Athlon CPU, 4 Hard Drives (never in standby), 2Gig DDR Ramed computer.
Just so i can type this crappy response to your cool post!
I don't want a pickle; I just want a Motor-Cycle! A four foot cop arrived with a five foot gun!
Well it would probably sort out late night crime in Central park .. having a bunch of pissed Weegies there would scare off any mugger.
It would probably replace the mugging with drunken disorderly though .
Not saying that Glasgow is all rough neighbourhoods , but being a Psycho is part of the Rent agreement in some areas
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Have you considered getting a colostomy bag fitted? It'll save you those pesky and time consuming trips to the bathroom.
Your microwave oven has a remote?
Yes. I call her "Jill".
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Mate, he is probably complaining about your garden on some other website. Don't judge us by one man!
Hey come on, we haven't had a shooting for nearly a week!
Transformers are equally culpable of silently sipping power.
Transformers... more than meets the eye!
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
I was in a hotel in Edinburgh that had a remote power off button.
Which was all well and good except that the actual power button on the TV
was loose so it came flying off and hit me on the head.
One day? One day??? They installed them at the new building we've just moved in to; every 15 minutes I have to lean to the left and wave my arm frantically to get the lights to work!
*twitch*
Don't start me on the fact that we can't turn the lights off, so they're blazing away throughout summer. Although we kinda need them, because they made the windows tiny "to save energy".
Arrgh!
..as a Norwegian who has visited England a few times, what I wonder about is why the British insist on carpets on their bathroom floors? Do you never miss when you pee? don't you drip when you come out of the shower? And why haven't the wonders of mixing faucets (insted of one hot and one cold) reached England?
I remember people telling me before moving to the UK that you can tell how far north you are in the UK by how blue the girls waiting outside the clubs are... And it seems to be true.