Energy Vampires: Are Your Devices Secretly Draining Your Wallet?
00:00:00.000 | I've always heard, oh, you leave the TV plugged in,
00:00:02.080 | you leave the computer plugged in.
00:00:03.260 | Even if they're off, they're still draining energy.
00:00:05.660 | Is that really where people should focus
00:00:07.260 | their time and energy?
00:00:08.260 | Or is it really about finding the major things
00:00:10.640 | that are causing drain?
00:00:12.300 | - It's the major things.
00:00:13.280 | You wanna hit the low hanging fruit.
00:00:14.300 | I mentioned my dehumidifier.
00:00:15.940 | When we figured that out, it was like, wow,
00:00:18.020 | we saw our energy use decrease by like 20%
00:00:21.020 | just by making that one tweak.
00:00:23.260 | When you're talking about a television set,
00:00:25.020 | it might be pulling two, three watts.
00:00:27.740 | It does matter.
00:00:28.580 | If you have multiple TVs and multiple game consoles
00:00:31.380 | and things like that that are just,
00:00:32.700 | they're all sucking two, three, five watts,
00:00:35.700 | it does add up, but that's not where I would start at all.