Linked by David Adams on Mon 26th Oct 2009 19:32 UTC
The "wall wart" is one of humanity's worst inventions (not counting all of the inventions that are actually intended to kill and maim each other, I'll admit). AC-plug power supplies are a cheap workaround to various engineering, economic, and regulatory problems that manufacturers face, and they solve those problems by pushing them off onto end users. So what can we do about it? OSNews takes a look at an ingenious workaround to the Wall Wart problem, and some hopeful trends that might make them a thing of the past.
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650 kWh/month is quite a lot to my standards.
Is that amount used by your household, or by you only?
If it's for a 5 Person Household, I would say it is not particularely energy-saving, but OK.
We have a 2 person household, and need 250 kWh/month, so that's 125 for one person. We use electricity for "normal use", and for "warm water". No air conditioning is needed where I live, and we do not heat electrically.
Our household total energy consumption (every form of energy the household consumes) is approximately 500 kWh/month. So if you don't use any other form of energy than electricity, and you are more than one person it's probably OK.