Do you love playing your CD player, DAB radio and flat-screen television? Well in that case if you are an environmental champion there might be cause for concern! These precious entertainment gadgets, a necessity of almost every household today, drain a whole lot of energy. Energy that is harnessed at the expense of global warming.
As per a report from the he Energy Saving Trust (EST), The Ampere Strikes Back, the consumer electronics sector is now only three years away from becoming the biggest single user of domestic electricity in Britain.
In 2010, it will overtake lighting, and “white goods” such as fridges and freezers, in home energy use. By 2020, entertainment and computer technology in the home will account for an extraordinary 45 per cent of all electricity used in UK households.
Now consider this: it will be equivalent to the output from 14 power stations along with costing the owners of the gadgetry 5bn a year. So where will global warming stand then? The growth of single person households many with big TVs, set-top boxes, computers, games consoles, TV and music recorders and digital radios will add to the higher energy consumption.
So what can you do? For starters, switch off your gadgets when not in use. Moreover, I mean take out the plug because leaving it in readiness to be switched on also wastes energy. I cannot ask you to stop using flat-screen TVs and digital radios, which are the most energy intensive gadgets, but I can definitely hope that technological advances in the future will turn them into more energy efficient devices.
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