Electricity

[Pigwidgeon]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> There is always so much talk about how Americans are wasteful of 
> energy. At the moment (I'm in California -- I'm not in danger of 
> rolling blackouts because I live in a DWP area, DWP is a 
> municipal utility rather than an investor-owned utility and 
> therefore has plenty of electricity, but the price might go up),   
> the talk is about Americans being wasteful of electricity.
> 
> So I want to ask all the Brits and Europeans and so on, are people 
> where you live always careful to turn off the lights when leaving a 
> room? Do you avoid applicances with remote controls (because the 
> device that listens for signals from the remote is always on (it   
> has to be on while the machine is off, or it couldn't receive the  
> ON command from the remote) and consuming a trickle of electricity? 
> Do you make a point of unplugging always-on appliances (like PCs) 
> when turning them off?

I am quite bad at some things. My computer is on nearly constantly 
when I am awake, even if I am not in. I have no reason to turn it off 
and so do not. Similarly I almost always have a radio or cd playing 
(usually they only go off if someone is visiting).

Part of this is that I am not directly paying for my electricity and 
so have no problems with leaving them on. However the devices 
mentioned above are very low energy consumers that leaving them on 
does not cause that much of a problem.


Simon