On 20 Nov 2006 13:35:13 -0800, "Weatherlawyer"
wrote:

|
|D.M. Procida wrote:
|
| A leaflet that arrived with the electricity bill claims that our mobile
| phone chargers will be sucking up 100kWh of electricity a day, whether
| they are charging a phone or not.
|
| What size battery would would suck up 100kWh a day? And who would I be
| able to reach on the mobile phone?
|
|Chargers do get warm if left plugged in but I find it hard to believe
|this would amount to a tenth of a kilowatt in a day.

Which is *100watthours per day* Maybe a person in the publicity department
who did not understand *kilo*?

About 4 watts seems about right to me.
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