Almost every single electronic in your house are sucking your wallet dry, automatic coffe makers, VCRs, DVDs, microwaves, TVs. Every single one of them are suckin energy even though you are not using them, all these electronics consume "stand by energy" or "Vampire energy" because they either have an adapter that will continue to draw electricity, or they have a clock waiting for the moment to prematurely turn on, every single electronic that uses a remote control since the device needs to be able to detect the remote when it's pushed.
But not only your complex kitchen apliances are consuming adicts but also your cellphone chargers! Never noticed that the charger remains warm even when you are not charging anything? According to Future Forests, only 5% of the power drawn by cell phone chargers are actually used to charge phones. The other 95% is wasted when you leave it plugged into the wall, but not into your phone.
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) measured and made a long list of energy wasters.
So whats the Obvious lesson, unplug! Yeah i know it will not make a diference blah blah blah, we have to be aware that the U.S. alone is wasting a little more of 3 Billion dollars yearly, just buy a power strip at your local hardware store. You will make up the time when you can cut all power with just the flip of a switch, and for the slightly more ambitious, you can get the new "energy lock" designed by young suk kim. Just take a look at the virtuos simplicity, all it really consists of is a timer (like the egg shaped you have over your oven yes the one you have never actually used), plug turn it as a crank, and let it time down. When time runs down the power ends.
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