No, you can’t save £30 per year by switching off your “standby” devices

Re:No, you can’t save £30 per year by switching off your “st... by mikepurvis on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @09:07AM (#31179370)

I wouldn't have believed it either, and yet:

"Keurig brewers – unless turned off – continuously heat the water inside the heating tank even when the brewer is sitting idle. Some Keurigs such as K-Cafe and K-Elite feature an auto-off function that switches off the brewer two hours after its last brewing to save on energy."

I guess if your machine is trashing the planet with plastic waste anyway, why not also trash it on the energy consumption side? What a disaster.

ref. https://kahawaplanet.com/does-keurig-boil-water-how-to-get-h...

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Re:No, you can’t save £30 per year by switching off your “st... by Finnucane on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @09:54AM (#31179905)

I keep an electric kettle and Melitta pour-over on my desk at work. It is on when I turn it on, then it is off. The Keurig has always seemed like kind of a bad deal.

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Re:No, you can’t save £30 per year by switching off your “st... by mikepurvis on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @10:40AM (#31180458)

I guess you could make a case for this kind of thing in a breakroom or something where it's going to be in use all day, but then again, that's also the scenario where it would make the most sense to just be continuously brewing whole pots of coffee in a conventional drip machine.

Either way, a Keurig in a home, only brewing once or twice a day? The worst.

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