A student at SEA recently
asked the following question…
“What is the leading cause of preventable energy waste?”
Good question!
According to a study by the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, home electronics such as TVs, DVD players, cable boxes, computers,
game consoles (even when idle) and phone or electronic gadget chargers
(especially when still plugged in and detached from the device) account for 5 %
of the total of domestic energy consumption. If this equipment were plugged
into power strips that were turned off when not in use, we could reduce our
annual energy costs by more than $3 billion & carbon emissions by 18
million tons.
Wow, that is A LOT of preventable energy waste!
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