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Jim[_28_]

wrote:
Thus spake ) unto the assembled
multitudes:
Boiling kettles and standby are not big energy consumers so trying to
minimise them is next to pointless.

On an individual basis it may seem like that, but think of the millions of
devices plugged in and on standby across the nation, then you have the
equivalent of a small power station's output being wasted.

Given that two Google searches consume enough energy to boil a kettle, I
wonder what the energy cost of making a Usenet post is.