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Standby Electronics a Waste?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the watts-the-problem dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Tell me exactly... by Rakishi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...you are aware that it is cheaper and easier to simply leave the led on all the time than to have stand by mode added in? As such that "special fancy geek-style mice" or heck any half-decent optical mouse will turn the led way down when it is not in use. It needs to be on to sense when you move the mouse. Also leds are very efficient, so the power used is minimal (under 100 mw probably).

  2. I never read all the articles in my newspaper... by volvolus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...so there's probably enough wasted ink and paper to supply airport novels to all the passengers on these extra flights out of New York.