On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:53:53 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I moved in with my GF, her electric bill shoot up to the roof (I > brought my 46" LCD TV, PlayStation 3, and in total 5 computers and > other electronics). After a couple of months of shock of seeing the > electric bills, we started to do this kind of stuff > (suspending/hibernating our machines, using CFL instead of normal > light bulbs, etc.), and we cut the spending almost in four. Apartment living maybe? I have 1 XBox, 2 Wii's, 40" LED TV, 22" LED monitor, 16" LCD monitor, an xbmc frontend, 2 el-cheap android tablets permanently plugged in, 1 desktop, 2 HP microservers and 3 laptops running almost 24/7. And about 10 incandescent bulbs all evening, 2 neons and umpteen CFLs. It's a lot of power, sure. And all quite insignificant when compared to what the swimming pool pump uses...... All a matter of perspective I suppose :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
