Pull the plug to save money on home electronic devices By ERNEST SCHEYDER
Associated Press
Saturday, April 11, 2009
NEW YORK — For Ben Veligdan, a music teacher in Brooklyn's Coney Island neighborhood, opening the electric bill became a monthly surprise.
There's no way more than $100 a month for him, his wife and a cat could be normal, right?
So Veligdan, 26, looked around his modest one-bedroom apartment for the culprit and decided unplugging his computer when sleeping or working would be a start.
His electric bill fell almost immediately.
Many electronic items still draw power when they're turned off. It's a phenomenon called "phantom" load, and it sucks about 5 percent to 10 percent of the energy used in America's homes each year.
That's the same amount of power generated by 17 coal-fired plants annually, according to Brian Keane, president of the energy-efficiency think tank SmartPower.
....
read more.
No comments:
Post a Comment