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.'"

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Re:If only...

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Dual Use Tech

[Anonymous Coward]

I grew up around an electric stovetop & now, whenever I'm at my parents, I frequently lose hair off my hands/arms & burn kitchen towels because they replaced the electric with a gas stove.

Not too bright, are we? Maybe you should leave the cooking to your parents. While your at it... get yourself fixed... removing yourself from the gene pool would benefit the human race.

Clotheslines are not allowed

[Derling Whirvish]

In almost every city code and certainly in every HOA rules, having a clothesline in your backyard is strictly forbidden.

Re:Dual Use Tech

[cayenne8]

"If you have oil heat?"

Oil heat? Never heard of that one....what kind of oil is this (thinking of somehow burning motor oil?). Is this something new?