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stand by to have prisons filled to overflowing..


just think, a million new jobsworths are to be created ready to ram raid houses at 3 in the morning, looking for leds left on!!!


only in britian would it be enforced


Mart

Bram

Look on the bright side!

It gives employment.

SWRTWannabe

Isn't the idea of Economy 7 that the electricity is generated anyway regardless of actual demand, and they would rather people use it than it just be wasted through loss from transmission cables?

In which case, surely leaving your TV on standby overnight isn't really that big an issue - in fact it makes a bit more cash for the electricity companies because it's electricity being used that they can charge for.

Leslie

You are quite happy to be charged more tax to pay for that then?

Les

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Have to agree: the rest of Europe would ignore it, then laugh at us for enforcing it, just like soooooooooo many other laws.

Alcazar

LG John

LOL, if legislation comes out to prevent me from legally owning or leaving my electronic equipment on standby then I'll leave it on 24/7. I will never surrender such a basic right of consumer choice. I pay for the fvcking electricity afterall

It really won't be long before there is an entire black market economy in switches, lightbulbs and eventually combustion engines!

moses

first of all is it just me or r they others who want britain oot of the EU

how can they let other countries decide whats gonna happen here and why the **** does a small country have tae take most of the EU workers

im all for hardworking polish folk and czechs etc, nice folk indeed and its coz oor own people dont wanna work and r sponging the dole and get mair money sitting on their asses, i dont blame the EU workers for working hard

but their should be a law against these spongers that r born in the uk, honestly this EU garbage is getting tae my brain, why the **** dae we have tae take mos t of slovakia in lol


i just dont understand

SJ_Skyline

Will the last person to leave the country please turn the lights out and not leave them on standby!

moses

lol mate all that land just tae oorselves lol lets build a new rome in britain

Bram

No, I see some avenue for promotion from my present role, a like more prisons its kept me employed for last 22 years. Bang more up

DMC12

I picked up one of those Power Meter things from Maplin's and went round measuring the the power consumption of everything.

Plug-In Mains Power & Energy Monitor

Obviously the Kettles (2.8kW), Toasters (1.6kW) and Microwave (1.3kW) were the big stuff, but they are only used infrequently.

I then tried items that had Standby.

My 28" CRT draws 133w when switched on, but only 2w when on standby. My 42" Plasma (which doesn't even have an off switch) uses 250w on / 3w standby. DVD Player, 10w on / 0.1w standby.

Why are we being led to believe that things left on Standby use almost as much power as when they are switched on?

Steve.

dsmith

Steve - I'd bolt the door. If you spread facts like that the Euro-Green police will be round to remove your PC soon and lock you up

OllyK

It's the way it's been calculated. If you assume a TV may be used for 2 hours per day that's 266W in your case. On standby for 22 hours is 44W so they'll claim your TV uses 16% of it's normal amount while on standby. But that's in any given 24 hour period, not on a comparable per hour basis. It's all rather dishonest if you ask me.

Brendan Hughes

Have you been to Slovakia?