TV Remote Controls Power Guzzlers
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH (UK) have issued a warning that people should not switch their TVs off for the night with their remote control unit, but instead use the on/off switch. The reason is that the instant on/off that the remote control activates continues to use 15 watts of electricity. FOE estimated that if half of the remote control TV sets in the UK (7 million) were being switched off in this manner, the electricity generation needed would add as much as 560 tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere in a single night — nearly 200,000 tonnes a year. New Zealand energy researcher Molly Melhuish has worked out that the power wastage of the remote control TV sets in New Zealand is significant. If there were 500,000 such sets in New Zealand, they have the potential to lose the equivalent generating power of a quarter of the Wanganui River flow.
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Forest and Bird, Volume 21, Issue 3, 1 August 1990, Page 6
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154TV Remote Controls Power Guzzlers Forest and Bird, Volume 21, Issue 3, 1 August 1990, Page 6
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