An Australian survey has recently revealed that plasma televisions,
Sony's Playstation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 are seriously power
hungry gadgets. In the survey they said people should really turn off
there gadgets at the power source and not leave them on standby as they
still consume a fair amount of electricity. Now I'm far from the
greenest person on the planet and nor do I intend on becoming one lol,
but given the current financial climate I actually think I might take
note and do this with my plasma television and Xbox 360 just to see if
my electricity bill actually goes down at all.
The study said "Leaving a Playstation 3 on while not in use would cost almost... five times more than it would take to run a refrigerator for the same yearly period. The plasma TV set was also a power hungry device, consuming over four times more power than a traditional analogue set. The average desktop computer was third on the list."
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