{"id":809,"date":"2007-01-03T23:37:43","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T07:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.computerworld.com:\/\/edde0dcd6c76e0317653a9a2c5d201f7"},"modified":"2007-01-03T23:37:43","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T07:37:43","slug":"energywatch-appliances-vs-gadgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"EnergyWatch: Appliances vs Gadgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB116603460189049162-04zk0DLUxdchdcCNfF4I_Q8jDZU_20071218.html?mod=blogs\">Real Time: A Hunt for Energy Hogs<\/a><\/b>, Jason Fry did some tests to find out what was really using up the energy in his home. <\/p>\n<p>According to his tests, his other appliances - dryer, cooker, etc - used a lot more energy than the computers, routers and other devices. I don't doubt he's correct. <\/p>\n<p>Light bulbs are remarkably inefficient (which is why I recommend CFLs), and anything that includes both a heating element and a motor (like a dryer or washing machine) at full AC voltage, is going to use a lot of energy compared to the relatively low-end motors and silicon in a computer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=PVi1Rt\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=PVi1Rt\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/70610622\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB116603460189049162-04zk0DLUxdchdcCNfF4I_Q8jDZU_20071218.html?mod=blogs\">Real Time: A Hunt for Energy Hogs<\/a><\/b>, Jason Fry did some tests to find out what was really using up the energy in his home. <\/p>\n<p>According to his tests, his other appliances &#8211; dryer, cooker, etc &#8211; used a lot more energy than the computers, routers and other devices. I don&#8217;t doubt he&#8217;s correct. <\/p>\n<p>Light bulbs are remarkably inefficient (which is why I recommend CFLs), and anything that includes both a heating element and a motor (like a dryer or washing machine) at full AC voltage, is going to use a lot of energy compared to the relatively low-end motors and silicon in a computer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=PVi1Rt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=PVi1Rt\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/70610622\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}