Vampire Energy: Electricity Use of Electronics Simply By Being Plugged In

Our living room was taking around 120 Watts on standby. Two computers, two monitors, two printers, two pairs of speakers, two reading lamps, router, print server, modem, set-top-box, telly, hi-fi, scanner etc.

Now it's all plugged into a new circuit controlled by a big switch by the door - on the way to bed at night it goes off and saves around £1/week.

Next - the chargers locker...

Excellent tip, and very creative and engaging production.

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The guy talks about Energy Star, but he neglects to mention a big point: A lot of the devices that go into standby mode are... Energy Star certified.

Whoops.

Also, power bricks will also consume power even if the device the brick is made for is not plugged in. So yes, the video is correct in also pointing out that the only real effective way to deal with vampire power devices is to have a hard switch to turn them all off.

Completely unnecessary to even have to do that in the first place. Give me my hard rocking switches back and get rid of this standby crap.

Agree, but it's not all waste energy - for half the year in Canada, all that energy helps heat the house. Which (in our case) very slightly reduces oil consumption.

These small changes to your energy consumption habits make a bigger impact on your electric bill than this article says.

This millionaire blogger I've been following also talks about vampire energy. Check it out:
http://amillionindebt.blogspot.com/