Electricity wasting gadgets

Ken68

Thank you Grom for your electric blanket suggestion.Must look it out. See the fire brigade are doing free tests. Can see savings of £50 p.a.
Every Lidl helps.

gromituk

I never find that I need to leave the electric blanket on all night (that's what ordinary blankets are for!) but it certainly encourages me to go to bed on time, and to get to sleep promptly, rather than lying there shivering.

Dead_Eye_Jones

conversly the new LCD PC screens use about a 1/5th of the leccy of an old CRT screen - go chuck out ya old one and buy a newun. (when i say chuck out I of course mean recycle responsibly )!

gromituk

No. I am sure that energy embodied in an LCD monitor (i.e. that used during its manufacture, etc) will far exceed the extra amount used for a CRT monitor for many many hours. And in the winter this will contribute to reduced heating bills. You also get brighter colours with a CRT monitor.

Hereward

gromituk wrote:

No. I am sure that energy embodied in an LCD monitor (i.e. that used during its manufacture, etc) will far exceed the extra amount used for a CRT monitor for many many hours. And in the winter this will contribute to reduced heating bills. You also get brighter colours with a CRT monitor.

I agree that the energy required to produce, and transport, the new screen will far out weigh any energy saved through its use.

gromituk wrote:

And in the winter this will contribute to reduced heating bills.

This was debunked in a recent BBC article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4922496.stm about 2/3rds of the way down). The amount of heat generated by the CRT, and incandescent light bulbs, is negligible when trying to heat a home.

bargainboy

A good idea i was thinking about doing was getting an extension cable with an on off sitch on it and using this for just about every thing i cant reach then when not in use turn it off at the switch good for sky/ntl boxes and video/dvd players especially in my daughters room where everything electrical the plug is hidden behind something or other already doing it in my dson's room but of course i never had too buy the extension cable soley for that purpose

gromituk

This was debunked in a recent BBC article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4922496.stm about 2/3rds of the way down). The amount of heat generated by the CRT, and incandescent light bulbs, is negligible when trying to heat a home.

Yes of course it is, but if you have proper thermostatic control on your room heating then it will come on less often. The heat given out by the monitor is less efficiently produced, assuming you are not using electricity to heat the house, but I was only saying that it does have a small effect. So it's only "debunked" in the sense that it has a huge effect, which obviously it doesn't.

Good article by the way - great to find out the energy embodied in a low energy light bulb, and that the mercury in them is not a major concern. But recycling them? Ikea is the only place I know, and hides away its recycling facilities so you'd never see them if you weren't looking for them.