Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph...
by maccard on Thursday September 23, 2021 @05:27AM
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or $0.70 per year at current energy prices.
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Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph...
by zatarc on Thursday September 23, 2021 @06:45AM
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Germany: hold my beer! 1.78€ or $2.09
But thats not point here. Everyone is talking about the climate change and then we want to charge millions or billions of phones with ~50% extra power?
Good idea!
Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph...
by maccard on Thursday September 23, 2021 @07:19AM
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In absolute terms it's nothing though. An average household uses 4000 kWh of electricity in the UK (less than half of the average us household), so saving the 5kWh on 4 phones is a 0.5% saving, which is roughly equivalent to running your home boiler for 10 minutes per year. Turning off your thermostat for one evening would have the equivalent impact of not using a wireless charger for a century.
Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph...
by throw0101a on Thursday September 23, 2021 @07:45AM
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> In absolute terms it's nothing though.
Symbols can hold power though.
Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph...
by maccard on Thursday September 23, 2021 @08:59AM
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Do we not have enough symbols? Plastic bags, domestic recycling, plastic straws are all strong "symbols" and yet we're still fighting about a couple of kWh rather than making any meaningful change.