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Energy Star Program Needs an Overhaul
Martin Hellman writes "DeviceGuru.com ran my piece raising questions about the EPA's Energy Star program. For example, an Energy Star compliant TV that claims to draw 0.1 watts in sleep mode appears to do that — but only seems to sleep about 25% of the time that it is 'off.' The other 75% of the time it draws about 20 watts, for an effective sleep power draw from the user's perspective that is 150 times what the manufacturer claims. Based on the observations described, it is also questionable how many PC's really are sleeping when their screens are blank, even if the user has turned sleep mode on. Given the billions of dollars and tons of CO2 that are at stake, this situation demands more attention."
First off, its not your job, or the EPA, or DeviceGuru, or anyone else - its up to the people that buy the stuff.
Secondly, after Piquipaille ripped, bless his heart, people are now more than ever aware of click suckers like yourself.
Thirdly, the Slashdot astroturf detector is strong, and nobody will click your self-pimped link.
Fourth, although "150 times the power draw" sounds sensational, it's still only 20W, or 480W a day, or a nickel. If you want to save money, skip Starbucks, your TV in so-called "sleep mode" is not what's keeping you out of Beverly Hills.
Lastly, you should have picked any other day to submit, so that if your submission DID get picked, it wouldn't have been kdawson, who is at best a bot and worst a GNAA operative.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
DeviceGuru.com? Moar like DeviceGayru.com amirite?!?!?
I would like to know how CO2 actually affects anything. Polar ice caps are increasing and we're in the midst of a 10+ year cooling trend. Please, explain to me how global warming causes colder temperatures. I must have missed that chapter in physics.
gah! I forgot to add to my original post that saving money and resources is a damned good reason for having energy efficient appliances. It's just that CO2 is not! It's a trendy buzzword whose common perceived meaning has no viable or believable relationship to a good reason for buying energy efficient devices. I agree with you almost completely. I would posit that people who don't like us very much ALREADY control our economy.
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You know what would be cooler than the government telling me how to spend 15 cents? How about the government going and fucking itself.
I: unplug unsused electronics; hard-switch off powerstrips that supply electronics; buy appliances (other things being equal) based on the kwh numbers; have a pretty good baby freeze; don't need the government or bloggers trying to make choices for me. Free agency, kids.
If electricity costs money, and I use it, I pay for it. If I want to pay more to use more, that's between me and the supplier. Not bloggers, not the government, not you.
Disbanding the EPA's EnergyStar program would save energy and money.
How would skate boarders feel if there was a whole government agency set up to reduce skate boarding?
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Ooooookay, that's twice. Please see http://www.angryflower.com/itsits.gif .
I know, I know, you don't care and I'm a grammar nazi. Get over it and realize that you limit your audience when you make juvenile mistakes like this. Time to grow up :)
Three years ago, all the top scientists, institutions and their worshipers here and in the media screamed, wailed and hollered in a global circle jerk for six months that 50% of us would be dead from the Avarian Bird Flu by now. Skeptics were modded down, out argued and the fact that there was 'scientific consensus' was used as irrefutable evidence that they were right. A hundred million birds were uselessly slaughtered, economies around the world were damaged and families and communities decimated on the sage and infaliable advice of the leading 'scientists' in the field.
Who was anyone to argue with 'scientific consensus' their worshipers cried.
And of course 'scientific consensus' was 100% completely and utterly wrong.
Do we ever hear a peep about that? Did anybody every stand up and say they over stated the case? No.
Was anybody fired, did anybody lose tenure or was anybody publicly shamed for acting like hysterical fools? No.
They just moved right back on to their old favorite, Global Warming..errr...Climate Change.
And here are.
You are exactly right. If everyone started commuting in a Prius tomorrow, there would probably be a lot MORE CO2 produced. First, you have to make all the priuses. Second, people tend to drive more when they feel good about it. Third, the Prius isn't a huge improvement over a similarly-sized car (40 vs 35 mpg).
I'm sorry you are surounded by such a large group of utterly wasteful and lazy people.
I find some groups in the U.S. to be especially wasteful. I think we need more travel, people need to live/work in other parts of the world for a while. Maybe then they will realize that the lifestyle they live is unsustainable, and really no better than it would be if they wasted less.
Part of the reason we are in this recession/depression is this wasteful consumerist attitude. When you don't think about the pennies and dollars, suddenly you are a nation that is in debt to the rest of the world, dependant on others for even the basics like energy.
Then get the fuck off your wasteful computer you fag. No one cares if you save 2 dollars a month to go buy organically grown dicks at whole foods. Really, think about the carbon footprint your faggy bullshit is putting on the world
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