none the less,with the millions of iPhones being charged every night at least they are efficient.
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iPhone 5 Costs Roughly $0.41 Per Year to Charge
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Extremely accurate according to http://grist.org/green-living-tips/ask-umbra-is-it-bad-to-leave-chargers-plugged-in/ which uses http://standby.lbl.gov/summary-table.html as a source. Nice guess
All I see from this story is if you choose the SIII as your phone, you hate the earth.
Amen!!!!! PREACH IT!
Right, because owning something that costs hundreds of dollars means I wouldn't prefer my electricity costs be lower. I must be a crazy environmentalist if I like paying less for something.
I like paying more unnecessarily. It shows off how rich I am.
I was wondering that, thinking that the power consumption used while charging would be dwarfed by the power used by always leaving the charger pugged in, but then I read this old page and found out that that was peanuts too.
Now how much money am I wasting by leaving my phone plugged in overnight when it only takes an hour to charge?
Not much extra I guess, doesn't it cycle on and off to save the battery, or is that just the bigger devices?
Because if the report was regarding the energy use of the LG GW620R no one would be bothered to read it.
Know your audience.
Yeah, I was surprised it's that cheap as well.
Probably comparable rates. I pay about 8 cents USD per kWh before taxes and whatnot.
That's average, max. is 1 Watt
Does not seem like much but even .26 W adds up
.26 X 24 X 365 = 2277,6 Watts
100 million X 2277,6 = 228 GWatt
So, even 0.26 watt is a waste if 10s or 100s of millions of iPhones would leave their chargers plugged in.
Up to this point it equals 26.8 cents by their reckoning, then wow, would you believe it, multiply anything by 100 million and you get a bit number.
This would be relevant if they were talking about the environment but the article is about cost.
If they had measured it in trees/drowning polar bears/bunnies with
faces you're absolutely right.
I can't get over the fact that it cost almost as much to power your xbox than your flat screen.
But that's also assuming running it all day won't kill it.
(I have an xbox - it's a joke)
But that's also assuming running it all day won't kill it.
(I have an xbox - it's a joke)
And how much is that machine
In singapore there are lots of places for free, shopping malls, free service.
It's quite shocking to think how much a set-top box consumes, more than a Desktop PC, while a set-top box does nothing other than a few limited tasks every once in a while when you decide to use it, as opposed to a PC that does everything you'd ever want to do.
It's not just the power consumption of useful high-tech devices we should worry about, but also about useless, badly designed devices that just suck energy non-stop to power their RAM because the manufacturer wasn't capable of spending more on actual permanent storage, or because the device constantly executes a loop of functions just to check if there is any input from the remote.
Oh, for those who say that we should be unplugging every electronic device when we don't use them (TV, set top box, washing machine, etc ), well give it a try yourself: first thing that will happen is that they will forget the time, the channels, they will take 10 minutes to boot up when you turn them back on, and if you turn them on in the wrong order they won't recognize each other (set top boxes in particular).
It's not just the power consumption of useful high-tech devices we should worry about, but also about useless, badly designed devices that just suck energy non-stop to power their RAM because the manufacturer wasn't capable of spending more on actual permanent storage, or because the device constantly executes a loop of functions just to check if there is any input from the remote.
Oh, for those who say that we should be unplugging every electronic device when we don't use them (TV, set top box, washing machine, etc ), well give it a try yourself: first thing that will happen is that they will forget the time, the channels, they will take 10 minutes to boot up when you turn them back on, and if you turn them on in the wrong order they won't recognize each other (set top boxes in particular).