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Found this online this morning

DON'T leave the TV on standby - you will run up a small fortune.
We have all heard this advice but how many of us know exactly how much it costs?
Well, now there is no excuse for ignorance because I have teamed up with power company E.ON to find out.
Together we have compiled this handy guide to the typical cost of household appliances. All costs are per hour except where stated.
As you can see, an ordinary telly on standby uses 0.3p of electricty an hour. That adds up to 7.2p a day or £26.28 over a year.
So cut out this guide and stick it somewhere all the family can see.
TELEVISION
Plasma TV 5p
Plasma TV on standby 0.4p- £35.04pa
Other TVs 2.5p
Other TVs on standby 0.3p- £26.28pa how many have you got at home
Set-top box 0.1p -£8.76pa
KITCHEN
Dishwasher 14p a load
Electric cooker ring 30p
Electric cooker oven 33p
Gas cooker ring 9p
Gas cooker oven 18p
Microwave 1p for 5mins
Kettle 2p a boil
Toaster (two slices) 0.7p
LIVING ROOM
DVD player 0.1p £8.76pa
Desktop computer 1p £87.60pa
Laptop computer 0.25p
Inkjet printer 0.4p
Radio 0.1p
CLEANING
Iron 30p
Washing machine 14p a load
Tumble dryer 52p a cycle
Vacuum cleaner 16p
MISCELLANEOUS
Traditional light bulb 1p
Energy-saving lightbulb 0.15p
Gas fire 23p
Immersion heater 41p
Digital camera charger 0.1p
Mobile phone charger 0.02p
MP3 charger 0.05p
PlayStation 3 3p
Xbox 360 2p
Nintendo Wii 0.25p
Wireless router 0.14p £12.26pa
Hairdryer 27p
Hair straighteners 1p
BATHROOM
Bath 10p a bath
Shower 5p a shower

That's interesting, but the costs pa are a bit suspect.
If you take the tv on standby, it assumes you are leaving it on standby for 24 hours per day 365 days of the year! :woot::confused:

You can't put exact values on like that, every device varies. I know my PC sucks more juice than my plasma :)

A list in scare tactics, that is.... some items require you to leave them on standby, like set top boxes, otherwise they don't get updates. New energy saving bulbs are costly, in lifespan and money, if you constantly swith them on and off, they are only efficient if left on and warmed up, constantly switching them on and off reduce their lifespan.

Next, they will be telling us, that when we don't have our heating on, we should turn our boilers off, turn off engines when stationary too, close all windows and doors if you got the heating on.

Rather than keeping hitting us, maybe, if they offered you solar panels for your roof, and wind turbines, so you can take less from the National Grid, and during the day, when you are not home, put electricity back in to the grid....

who turns their router off when they're not using the net?

The girlfriends nan does, she thinks its gonna burn the house down or summat :confused:

Bit annoying when your sat in bed on a saturday morning and have to go downstairs to turn the net on LOL

Bought an LG plasma a few years back now and played holy hell with them because it didn't have an on/off switch installed and the retailer for not informing me. They said that's the way it's designed, to stay on standby:mad:. Cost to me and the enviroment. It now has a switch in the power cordhttp://www.oople.com/forums/images/icons/icon10.gif

I turn my router off at night and if I'm out. Its very easy for someone to hijack your internet and the least they can do is try it while I'm in:thumbsup:

Why are you in bed with your girlfriends nan;)

lol mine ends up in some london fat cats pocket im guessing,:)