Friday has arrived and it already feels like a good day. The outside temp is 63° and I’m tempted to turn the overhead fan on, as it’s 77° in the study. Maybe that’s because of all of the electronics in this room? I don’t know about your house, but mine seems to have all sorts of little green, blue and red power indicator lights glowing. I can count them as I wander through the house in the dark. The kitchen has half a dozen and this room has even more of them.
Someone did a study on this standby power usage and according to that study; more than 10% of our power bill is for appliances that are “off”. They call these appliances “Zombies” and every house has plenty of them. Even your television is a “Zombie”, always on and waiting for your touch to bring it to life. Most of us aren’t old enough to remember that televisions used to have to “warm up” when you first switched them on. Of course this was back in the age when television stations played the national anthem and stopped broadcasting at midnight. They might start broadcasting again around 5 in the morning, but not before showing us a “Test Pattern” on our screens for an hour or so.
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