Power waste adds up
After listening to John Doerr’s TED presentation, my mind started to think “green” thoughts. Along with the lights on at the local corporate building and the amount of plastic bags used to pack your groceries, it’s time to look inside the home. CNN published a story on the amount of power used by devices in “standby mode”, adapters that are in the outlet but not connected to a device, even microwaves with their tiny, fairly useless, digital clocks. The article states that “about 40 percent of the electricity being used to power your home electronics is consumed while they are in that standby mode.”
The article is worth some attention. I’m going to evaluate my home as well. As the article states, “If one in 10 American homes used only appliances endorsed through the program, the Energy Department estimates, it would reduce U.S. carbon emissions by the same amount as planting 1.7 million acres of trees.“
