Edenbee: Don't use standby and turn all my household appliances off

Don't use standby and turn all my household appliances off

Turn your living room lights off. Are lots of twinkling standby lights still on? Appliances on standby can use up to 85 per cent of the energy they use when fully on. Turn your appliances right off when they are not in use you'll save energy and money. Standby is for fighter pilots.

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by cattOWa 4 months ago

Fighter Pilots??......COOL!

85 per cent? ..... NOT COOL.
by SharpSharp 4 months ago

tenorune is spot on when it come to extension power strips.
Rather than "daisy-chaining" extensions, I plug each extension directly into a wall socket and then group the devices that are used together on the same extension. If I want to watch TV I flick the switch on the extension with the TV and VCR on, when I watch a DVD I flick the switch for the DVD and the HiFi extension. This keeps Stand-by running down to a minimum.
I've bought an individually switched 6-way extension for my computer stuff and only switch the power on for a device when it's in use, this prevents all those black power-bricks running warm all the time.
by tenorune 6 months ago

Power strips are your friend. Plug appliances and electronics that use vampire power into power strips so you can easily shut them all off.

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Again, this is so boring. Time is better spend doing other things. 4 answers

Asked by dctanner 7 months ago
1. Busybee
  Perhaps time could be spent inventing a remote control that switched off all these little red lights at the push of a button. Grab the soldering iron!
2. nicepaul
  dctanner - one advantage to having fewer power sockets in our house is that most of our appliances are plugged into one or two 4-way bars. It only takes a second to turn off the mains power to all our lounge appliances. It might not be an exciting second, but that's hardly the point is it?
3. BeePositive
  Only boring people are bored I always say. Concious living is being alive!
4. doctoral
  Busybee, for those who are too lazy/rich/etc. to press a button or pull a plugcheck out http://energy-centre.co.uk/. they have the very remote controlled gadget you mentioned, as well as a host of other clever devices.