A force as insidious as Dracula is quietly sucking a nickel of every dollar's worth of the electricity that seeps from your home's outlets nsert the little fangs of your cell phone charger in the outlet and leave it there, phone attached: That's vampire electronics. Allow your computer to hide in the cloak of darkness known as ``standby mode'' rather than shutting it off: That's vampire electronics The latest estimates show 5 percent of electricity used in the United States goes to standby power, The percentage could rise to 20 percent by 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The International Energy Agency has estimated standby energy use by vampire electronics at 200 to 400 terawatt-hours a year. The entire country of Italy consumes about 300 terawatt-hours of electricity each year, according to the agency "About 40 percent of the electricity being used to power your home electronics is consumed while they are in that standby mode, |
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