[BNM] [OT] Ecotricity

[Rebekah]

What is wrong with you people? Can't you actually walk over to a socket and
switch it off? Is it really that much hassle?

rebeKah


Antony Jones wrote:

> If you have ALDI remote control plug sockets like me, that problem is no more!
> 
> But then I suppose remote control plug sockets draw some power too. Oops!
> 
> Antony Jones
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Matt Keogh [mailto:Matt at cst-group.com]
>> Sent: 13 April 2006 12:14
>> To: 'bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org'
>> Subject: [BNM] [OT] Ecotricity
>> 
>> What I find really annoying is electrical goods such as the Sony Freeview
>> that can only be switched to standby unless you switch them off at the
>> wall...
>> 
>>> Something I don't get entirely though - if unplugging all the idle phone
>>> battery chargers in the country saves about as much as one nuke station
>>> makes, why don't they just make battery chargers that stop drawing
>>> current when... err... no current is being drawn?
>> 
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