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"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:

"max" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:

Just as the microwave has a clock based timer that counts down and shuts
if
off too. Makes is saver for children and seniours to use over other
cooking
apliances. Why would you want to eliminate that? You could step back 20
years and put in a windup timer but I don't see any real savings there.

a 1 watt load == 8769 watts/year


= about $1.50 a year

duh.

Remember, that figure is for a single, solitary, one watt load. You're
correct tha on an individual basis, it's nothing. Of course, in
reality, in an average home that value is actually on the order of
twenty to one hundred times greater than one watt. Eventually piffling
little expenses like this add up for people, some more than others.

On a national basis, in the context of national energy policy, it
becomes truly significant.


..max

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