Screen your electricity bills by switching it off!
With energy bills on a constant rising curve, just about any method of cutting wastage and cost should be attempted as long as it is legal. Sometimes wastage is taking place right under our noses, so glaringly obvious that we cannot see it.
One major item that appears in most UK homes these days is the computer, and sometimes there are more than one of them and often two or three. There is a lot of discussion about whether switching off a computer every time it is not in use will be offset by the considerable power that a computer needs when it is in re-start mode. While there are no set statistics available, common sense will tell us that switching off a computer if it is not in use for a few hours will be far from cost effective, and leaving it running for a few days at a time will certainly mean a lot of money being wasted. Yet that doesn't mean that a computer screen can't be switched off every time that the user rises from their desk or table. Computer screens can drink up a lot of energy and can be fired up instantaneously.
This rule doesn't apply to computers as they are known to consume remarkable 90% less electricity than desktop computers. Strangely enough, most laptop users are known to turn off the power to their laptops when not in use.
These days the difference between a computer screen and a television screen are few, and they both use a load of energy. Among the many common factors that they have at their disposal is an integral power management system which can be rapidly set up and if activated will save a tremendous amount of energy without too much thought. These systems have been designed to become active when the screen is not in use. In the case of a computer screen it can be set up to detect that the computer is not in use and automatically switch off after a pre-determined time.
With televisions the situation is a little more complicated as a cable television operates around the clock. However there are some televisions that can be set up to automatically switch off at a pre-determined time or if the remote control has not been activated for a certain amount of time.
By taking advantage of as many "switch off" modes as possible, energy use will go down and another battle in the war to save energy will be won.
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