Putting a Stake through an Energy Vampire’s Heart
The Alliance to Save Energy has published a free, fun guide to slaying your energy vampires.
Unlike those blood-sucking ghouls from Transylvania, these vampires are found in every home. An energy vampire is any electronic appliance that secretly uses energy–even when it’s not in use. Examples are cell phone chargers, answering machines and video game systems.
This 2-page, colorful report starts with instructions for finding all your home’s energy vampires. Then it gives a detailed check list that includes all types of appliances along with the estimated dollar amount each one costs when plugged in, but turned “off.”
Once you’ve gone through the list, you can calculate your home’s “Energy Vampire Drain,” in dollars. And you can begin to “slay” your energy vampires by remembering to unplug appliances when you’re not using them. You can make things easier by using power strips to completely disconnect a whole set of “vampires” from their power sources.
Visit this link to download the Energy Vampire Hunt.
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