On Jan 28, 8:52*pm, Smitty Two wrote:
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:15:36 -0800, Smitty Two
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"Bill" wrote:

Here ya go. Starting on page 8, it lists how much electricity various home
electrical things use when "off'. Of course these all add up.

Leaking Electricity: Individual Field Measurement of Consumer
Electronics...
http://enduse.lbl.gov/info/ACEEE-Leaking.pdf

Yeah, they add up. " ... whole house losses have been estimated to be 50
watts ..."

Damn, that's 36 kwh per month. Almost $5. No wonder I'm so poor all the
time. The gubmint should pay me for all that waste.
My house uses double that. *I have lots of small loads like X-10
modules and controllers, print servers, DVRs, etc. *I have thought of
putting up a small solar cell array that would match the "standby"
load. *That way, I would only use purchased power when I actually
turned something on to use it. *I know that is a purely arbitrary
amount of power to generate via solar, but it might make me feel
better about the waste.

And my house uses probably 1/4 that. Toys cost money.

toys cost money so ya got to *think* - one of my computers has a wake
on LAN feature so when I power it down at night its with its surge
protector so no WOL for it...