XPost: alt.autos.toyota, rec.autos.driving, alt.society.liberalism   
   XPost: alt.fan.michael-moore   
   From: russotto@grace.speakeasy.net   
      
   In article <24adnYHzJPKVDG7RnZ2dnUVZ_rydnZ2d@giganews.com>,   
   dr_jeff   wrote:   
   >   
   >Shutting off 3 TVs, 3 VCRs and 2 Amplifiers would save about $20 per   
   >month. That's around 150 kWH.   
      
   Not bloody likely.  That works out to about 200 watts, or 25 watts per   
   device of standby draw.  That's unlikely.  VCRs draw about 5W,   
   televisions about 3W, amplifiers about 1/4 W.   
   (http://standby.lbl.gov/summary-table.html)   
   And I only have two TVs, no VCR, and 1 amplifier, so I could hardly   
   kill the power to so many.  Of course, if I had a VCR and shut the   
   power off to it, it wouldn't do timed recording so well, would it?   
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