School project of the BOS I 10 at the David-Roentgen-Schule, Neuwied.

It's easy to moan about the bad times we live in and to say that there is no chance to change things because everything is connected worldwide.

BUT...all of us can make contribute to a better world by only changing little things in their everyday lives.
Inspired by the project "We Are What We Do" we have started to publish our own ideas how to change things for the better.
Here you can find the ideas of the BOS I 10 at the David-Roentgen-Schule, Neuwied.

Montag, 17. Januar 2011

The standby mode - sometimes usefull, but often expencive!

Everybody knows them, the little red lights in our households. They’re almost everywhere. On our television, the sound system, the computer or the electric toothbrush.It looks like the devices are turned off, but in truth they’re turned on and cosume a lot of electrical energy, altough no one use them.

The standby mode helps us to activate devices easier and faster. For example you can push a button on the remote control of the television and it turns on immediately. Or you can move the mouse of a computer and the monitor turns on, so you can start to work without waiting on hold.

If we would renounced of these little aids or turn the devices off always, we can save up to 10% energy. Only in germany the households produce over 2150 million euro electricity costs every year with this lights of the standby mode.


Here are some tips to avoid unnecessary costs through the standby mode:

• Use a power strip to disconnect the devices from the power supply system.

• When you don’t have a power strip, press the power switch on the back of the device.

• Computers, monitors und printers have an energy-saving mode. Use this when you make a longer break!

• Buy your equipment with auto-off switch. If the device is not used, it switches off after one hour.


Everybody can help to save electrical energy, even with such little things.



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2 Kommentare:

  1. Binder23. Januar 2011 um 00:44

    I think it's good because so many people use the standby mode but the most of them don't know how much energy it costs. It's not only for the environmental it's also to save your money with lower costs of your energy when you switch off your devices and don't always use the standby mode.

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  2. Jan99923. Januar 2011 um 14:23

    Hi Sebi1337,
    I agree with your statement.
    Using the standby-mode is unnecessary for the most people, it needs only 30 seconds more to start up the most gadgets if they are really in the "off" mode. so guys power off your gadgets and support the enviroment!!!

    My opinion is that everybody can accept this short time and additionally save money.

    Sincerely yours Jan R.

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