Last night, when I was headed to bed, I stopped and stared back into the living room. And I just KNEW there was something creepy about all my "shut-off" electronics, with their glowing red "sleep mode" lights, glaring at me through the darkness.
From the Associated Press, via CNN: "A force as insidious as Dracula is quietly sucking a nickel of every dollar's worth of the electricity that seeps from your home's outlets."
This is actually a very important article about responsible living and trying to leave a small footprint, but it opens with the most hilariously scary, loaded language I've seen since the special reports on bedbugs.
In short, though: Hey. You left your cell phone plugged into the wall, even though it was totally charged. That's 'vampire' electronics; you're using up electricity when you don't need to.
From the Associated Press, via CNN: "A force as insidious as Dracula is quietly sucking a nickel of every dollar's worth of the electricity that seeps from your home's outlets."
This is actually a very important article about responsible living and trying to leave a small footprint, but it opens with the most hilariously scary, loaded language I've seen since the special reports on bedbugs.
In short, though: Hey. You left your cell phone plugged into the wall, even though it was totally charged. That's 'vampire' electronics; you're using up electricity when you don't need to.
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