If you think your appliances and gadgets don’t use up electricity just because they’re not in use though plugged into sockets, you’re completely wrong. Your cell phone charger continues to use electrical power at 1 watt per hour on standby. That’s probably 8 watts if you left it in the socket while you were out of the house the whole day. If you charge your cell phone, you’d be using 5 watts an hour on the charger.
Your television set on standby mode uses 10 watts per hour as opposed to 100 watts while in use. The DVD player uses 7 watts while on standby as compared to 12 watts while on.
Here’s something interesting. Your PC set guzzles up 130 watts an hour while in use. Unplugged, the same set uses 15 watts per hour. Your PC monitor alone uses 70 of those 130 watts when in use, while 11 of those 15 watts on standby. Maybe, you would like to opt for laptop instead which uses 29 watts per hour of use as opposed to 2 watts in standby mode. Your modem is a quaint thing. Whether in use or off though unplugged, it uses 14 watts an hour.
So, turn off all these commonly unplugged appliances and gadgets when they are not in use. Electrical power may be cheap in your area but think of the environmental impact that your gadgets and gizmos contribute to. Don’t be sucked by vampire power – that’s the electricity your unplugged electrical things continue to suck up even if they are not in use. In the US alone, vampire drain costs consumers upwards of $3 billion annually.
Via planet green
