Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Ridicule-less Power

Want to see ridiculous?


Now if you suck at math, you'll think you can save power by reducing your usage by .0000001% .  You'll go crazy:  you'll unplug everything, you'll kill the power to your VCR and Microwave when you're not using it - FYI, leave the TiVO plugged in so it can record stuff - and you'll turn off everything you can find and drive everyone around you crazy.

And, after a year, you'll save as much energy as you'd spend idling at a stop light for 3 seconds.

So if you lack the ability to do math, you may equate wasting a bunch of paper and wasting a tiny bit of hydro power.  And that's ridiculous.

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