Most people have no clue how modern devices and appliances work.
Get one (or several) of these (or similar)
and individually test each one of your modern devices and appliances that you think is 'off' and you will see that it isn't really.
Posted on 04/25/2023 4:20:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Horse feathers. My coffee maker draws no power, it has not clock, it brews, then it is turned off. The washing machine using juice when in the off position? I can get the chargers, but this is just a way to get government able to control our power use. Everything will be smart, so government can control your entire life.
I have a large microwave that draws 6 watts when off so I added a switch to turn off the juice since I rarely use it and instead have a smaller, simpler one that I use and which draws some negligible amount of juice when off.
When I was growing up, we had to turn the tv on and let it “warm up” before there was a picture or sound. Solid state electronics greatly improved that, but the “instant on” feature was a great breakthrough. Now there is almost zero waiting.
I like the way the “researchers” say Brits could save 500 million pounds every year. What if the average Brit finds the instant-on convenience worth the extra few pounds a year it costs him or her?
Nothing prevents that person from unplugging appliances to save that bit of money.
It’s all about freedom and suppressing it.
Most people have no clue how modern devices and appliances work.
Get one (or several) of these (or similar)
and individually test each one of your modern devices and appliances that you think is 'off' and you will see that it isn't really.
Yeeeeeahhh…I think I'm going to go ahead and cough it up for the convenience.
Ive never kept mine on after use. Maybe if you drink it all day.
This is one big load of crap! We have modern appliances that have LED clocks. The amount of electricity used in all of them can be measured in milliwatts.
This is nothing but a ploy to get ignorant people to give up more of their freedom.
It is hard to convince folks that a TV or appliance is drawing electricity when it shows no image or no light is displayed. Or that a car is never turned off; even if you mention that the car response when use the remote when it is “turned”
I’m Reddy for it!
Since when do toasters have a standby mode?
I save ton of $ unplugging our tv cable box when not in usr
If my above analysis is wrong somehow, then I guess I'm just a (happily) wasteful American.
My Killawatt meter informed me that my little coffee pot pulls 600w an hour to keep coffee warm after it was brewed.
I used to leave the pot on to have hot coffee later. Just turning that off after brewing the coffee and then using the microwave to heat up the coffee later saves me about 1.2 to 1.8 KW a day (even more because sometimes I’d forget and leave it on all day). At 32 cents a kilowatt hour in NH, the savings from this simple change really adds up!
The Keurigs that keep hot water on standby draw power.
I’m not turning mine off, I like that instant hot coffee.
The article is from the UK, where every outlet has a switch on it. I guess these people are too stupid to just flip the switch
“Coffee machines and cookers cost the most money - while not even in use”
Still doesn’t explain why they’re paying something like 50 cents per kwh...but Ukraine does, along with Greta.
They weren’t raised in my house growing up. The heat was turned down to 55 even in the winter at night, and was kept at 65 during the day. At night we would turn it up or build a fire. We even learned how to keep the house cold in the summer. You keep blinds close, doors closed, and open it up after the direct sunlight was gone. EVERYTHING we did was with a mind to save money. The car was for Mom and Dad or vacations. Dad rode the bus to work, Mom never drove me or my siblings to school. Ride the bus, or it was “shanks mare”= leg it out.
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