The Norman Baker TV Standby Mode Challenge
 

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:55:19 +0000, Iain Napier
wrote:

Pyriform wrote:

A kilowatt hour is about 9p.

For 10 watts that's a saving of £0.0009 an hour, or just over 2p for
every 24 hours that you have your PC switched off completely.

Or am I missing something? :)

£7.88 a year?

Which assumes he'd never switch it on to use it ;-)

Or you could look at it in terms of carbon emissions saved. I'm not
knocking it. All I ever objected to at the start of this thread was
people making stupid claims about standby power consumption.

From an environmental aspect you're quite right. Personally I couldn't
be bothered with reaching behind my PC when I power it down to save 2p a
day. I do find I'm more conscious lately about conserving energy however.

My PC has an odd condition whereby if I *don't* switch if off at the
back and come back to it later, the on button won't work - and I have
to switch it off at the back and leave it for some time until it will!

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The Norman Baker TV Standby Mode Challenge
 

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Iain Napier wrote:
Johnny B Good wrote:

Just out of curiousity, what is your PC's standby (shutdown)
consumption? I can reduce mine to zero by the simple expedient of
switching off at the PSU's isolator switch. This also shuts power
off to the monitor and speakers because they are fed from the
auxilliary mains socket.

In this case, I'm saving a total of 10 watts standby power, so worth
the trouble of reaching round the back to switch the mains feed off.

A kilowatt hour is about 9p.

For 10 watts that's a saving of £0.0009 an hour, or just over 2p for
every 24 hours that you have your PC switched off completely.

Or am I missing something? :)

£7.88 a year?

Or you could look at it in terms of carbon emissions saved. I'm not
knocking it. All I ever objected to at the start of this thread was
people making stupid claims about standby power consumption.

Actually, what makes it worthwhile saving a mere 10 watts consumption,
is the minimising of the UPS loading in the event of an overnight mains
outage.

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