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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."
the entire population of Glasgow could fly to New York and back again What, both of them?
Dilbert is eating! He has a mouth! Noooo!
...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).
A study recently established that most people were talking too loudly and thereby increasing Noise pollution.
According to the study, if 5 Billion people stopped talking altogether, then we would not have any Noise pollution.
The religious groups endorsed this idea, saying this would promote people to stop lying.
Sheeesh !!
...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.
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."
Maybe the 600.000+ people in Glasgow would have less emission than devices in sleep mode, but imagine the smell!