1000 Flowers for the Planet - #268 Unplug the Laptop
It’s very easy to plug in the laptop to recharge it, walk
away and forget it, but it only takes a while to recharge and it’s done –
there’s no need to leave it plugged in. Once the battery is full of energy it
can’t be loaded with any more energy, so the electricity that is still going
through the system is leaking energy, and whilst it may be minimal, every bit
of it adds up over time. Unplug the laptop when it has completed recharging and
save electricity.
The research I’ve done on the internet is interesting in
that some people claim the amount of leakage/waste energy is so minimal it’s
not worth worrying about. But here’s my take: even if it’s worth barely one
cent per day, multiply that by the number of appliances in your home leaking
energy, multiply that by 365 days in the year and see what figure you come up
with (conservative figure = 5 appliances = $18.25 per year). Now take that and
multiply it by the number of households in your country. One million households
would be wasting $18,250,000.00 per year. Remember this is in unused electricity. And I’m only talking
about dollars – how about the wasted use of fossil fuels? So if you think your
one cent a day is not worth worrying about, think again.
Don’t be lazy. Save the world. Unplug your laptop.
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