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The amount of electronic appliances we have in a house has risen considerably for the last ten years. Once we usually had just a TV-set and stereo. Now, we have also one or two computers, a DVD player and who knows what else. This situation, of course, impacts our energy bills a lot. While all those appliances taken separately use very little electricity, the situation looks quite differently if we sum up all the energy they use. 1)Turn your PC on only if you need to work on it. Switch it off once you're done. The common misconception is that a PC uses so much energy while starting up that it is cheaper to keep it on all the time. This used to be true in times before the first Apple was created. Now PCs use only a bit more power during the startup. While turning your PC on and off every fifteen minutes will certainly add to your energy bill, an hour or two is long enough to switch your PC off and let it rest a bit. 2)Plug off your mobile phone charger when you don't recharge it. The same is true for all kinds of chargers. In the US such activity costs us 8,000,000,000 dollars a year. Plug your charger right before you need it and unplug it as soon as your cell phone's battery is full. 3)Remember that all electronic appliances which you can turn off via remote really go to the standby mode and they keep using energy when "asleep." The only way to prevent it is to unplug them. While it is only a trickle of energy, everything adds up! 4)Keep in mind that seemingly similar devices may need various amounts of energy. Generally, look for the Energy Star mark - it means that the device is considered energy-efficient and uses up to a third of energy needed to power the gadgets without the Energy Star.
By: Andrew John
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