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Appliances Hog More Energy Than High-Tech Gadgets
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "A tech columnist looked around his home and wondered, 'All these TVs and cable boxes and computers and computer gear and chargers for various adapters have to be sucking up a lot of power, right?' So WSJ.com's Jason Fry bought a power meter to find the biggest power hogs in his home. They weren't his newfangled gadgets: 'The heavily used agglomeration of PC / two monitors / printer / hard drive / speakers in my downstairs study costs a bit more than $10 a month. The PC in our bedroom costs about $6 a month. The upstairs laptop? Less than $1 — a bit more than other always-on gadgets such as the router, cable modem, wireless repeater and Airport Express. So what were our apartment's power hogs? The lights and the dryer. I estimate our lights cost us around $30 a month, nearly a third of that from a chandelier with eight bulbs. Then there's the dryer. I don't know exactly how many watts it uses, but estimate it's costing us at least $25 a month.'"
If he makes a habit of ordering dual-use technology, he better be prepared for a rather drawn out series of overly-involved yet useless visits from Mr. Hans Blix.
Can you imagine the terror he will face when he receives a 600 page long, sternly worded, yet entirely vague letter from Mr. Blix? Can you?!
Next thing you know, he'll be banned from buying iPods by the Treasury Department.
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Some of us used to mix soundboards and value our well-tuned hearing. You're not the only one who has "sensitive" hearing.
Please explain proper term I should have used instead of "sensitive".
Oh, right, you were just being a dick.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.