[Green-Activist] Electrical items on "standby"

[John Hill]

I wrote these notes to another site today in a reply to someone who was 
asking about how much power is wasted when electrical items are left on 
"standby." I thought it might be of some interest to listmembers, so i will 
paste it in here:


"Regarding electrical items put on standby - it is true that many of them 
used to use an incredible amount of energy. I had a CD player/radio which 
used 40 watts of power when on and 33 watts when on standby. In recent 
years, though, there has been a marked effort to really cut down energy 
waste on standby - at least here in Australia. My TV and laser printer, for 
example use less than 1 watt each. But one should check each appliance and 
push governments. to legislate that all appliances should clearly mark how 
much they use on standby.

Most homes have several appliances on standby at once. If one had five 
appliances each using 1 watt on standby all day that would still come to 120 
watt/hours per day - a quite significant amount of wasted electricity."

Cheers,

John Hill