Comments on: Energy Saving http://liveotherwise.co.uk/makingitup/2007/08/14/energy-saving/ coming home again Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:25:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Tim http://liveotherwise.co.uk/makingitup/2007/08/14/energy-saving/comment-page-1/#comment-238852 Tim Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:03:32 +0000 http://liveotherwise.co.uk/makingitup/2007/08/14/energy-saving/#comment-238852 I do think that we are being conned. While we are all busy separating out our cans and bottles from our green waste and fretting about our microwave's power consumption while we are not using it, we will feel that something is being done, and won't look more seriously at the absence of any real action, in areas which hit the bottom lines of big businesses. I do think that we are being conned. While we are all busy separating out our cans and bottles from our green waste and fretting about our microwave’s power consumption while we are not using it, we will feel that something is being done, and won’t look more seriously at the absence of any real action, in areas which hit the bottom lines of big businesses.

]]> By: Daddybean http://liveotherwise.co.uk/makingitup/2007/08/14/energy-saving/comment-page-1/#comment-238851 Daddybean Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:41:21 +0000 http://liveotherwise.co.uk/makingitup/2007/08/14/energy-saving/#comment-238851 Yeah, , but do you go round switching things off though? The are basically what we have for out lights in the sitting room lighting circuit), though cheaper from Eurobatteries.com. Quite a decnet range on the remotes though, you could probably turn everything off in your house in one go from the sitting toom :-) but yeah, for the average standby device, doesn't seem worth it moneywise. and how much embedded energy is involved in making these things and shipping them fromChina etc.? I think all the fuss about things on standby isn't really goign to make much difference really. I thnk it's over egging the pudding about how much of a differnce it makes (Oh, must remember to turn all the standby things off when we fly off to Teneriffe), and people just aren't going to bother on the whole for a lot of things anyway. THe answer really is for things to be deisgned to just use a couple of watts on standby. Yeah, , but do you go round switching things off though?

The are basically what we have for out lights in the sitting room lighting circuit), though cheaper from Eurobatteries.com. Quite a decnet range on the remotes though, you could probably turn everything off in your house in one go from the sitting toom :-) but yeah, for the average standby device, doesn’t seem worth it moneywise. and how much embedded energy is involved in making these things and shipping them fromChina etc.?

I think all the fuss about things on standby isn’t really goign to make much difference really. I thnk it’s over egging the pudding about how much of a differnce it makes (Oh, must remember to turn all the standby things off when we fly off to Teneriffe), and people just aren’t going to bother on the whole for a lot of things anyway. THe answer really is for things to be deisgned to just use a couple of watts on standby.

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