Vampire appliances: the electronics sucking your wallet dry
by from Technology | The Guardian on (#5XE3K)
Appliances left on standby account for almost a quarter of Britain's electricity use. Turns out your gran was right to go around switching things off at the wall
Name: Vampire appliances.
Age: There are old ones, and less old ones.
This article was amended on 24 March 2022 as we had used an incorrect format for measuring the power used by a Sky box. We used W/hour when W (for watts) would have sufficed.
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