These things all add up. Our homes have many devices idling at about 3-10W - TVs, DVD/video, microwaves, phone chargers left plugged in, PCs.
Let's say that's 60W per household in idle equipment. The UK has about 25m households (I think). That makes 1.5 gigawatts consumed just in the UK by equipment that's "turned off." So reducing idle power consumption to 1W can make a big difference. The best solution is to provide an old fashioned thing called a "power switch" that lets you turn something completely off - zero watts. I'd like to see one on the Squeezebox v.4. (And my PC should have one on the front too, so I don't have to grovel on the floor to turn it off at the wall). -- mecouc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mecouc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=227 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25100 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
