Let me, Yong Wei, tell you that leaving your electrical appliances on standby'can cause your household electricity bill to be $150 more a year, and at the same time increasing household carbon pollution by 500kg per year. This is because the electrical outlets that the appliances are plugged into have electricity flowing through them. The range of electricity used by stand-by mode electrical appliances are anywhere from 1 watt to 50 watts of electricity. Now 1 watt doesn’t sound like a lot, which it isn’t, but when you have 20+ electrical appliances in your home using just 1 watt of power, that’s 20 watts being used!
So why not try my dare?!
You will turn off stand-by at power points and I will sleep without air-con or fan for a month.