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Leave off devices, but in standby mode, can weigh in the pocket after a year
BY MARIO RUSSO
11.13.2014 7:00
In drastic reduction times reservoirs across the country, especially in the Southeast, and saltier bills - from the last day 7 residential consumers of Light are paying 4.68% more in the making - any power-saving may represent not only an initiative of conscious consumption, as well as savings for the pocket.
In Brazil, the fight against waste could reduce reduce 643 700 Gigawatt-hours of energy consumed last year, the total 3.5% higher than in 2012. The increase was driven by exactly the residential, responsible for most increased demand (6.1%).
One of waste villains passing almost always unnoticed by the consumer is precisely indoors, the harmless appearance of stand lights by (standby mode) exist today in almost all electronic devices, from the microwave, through the TV and home theaters, to printers, mini systems and answering machines.
A survey conducted by the Protest - Consumers Association, in Rio and Sao Paulo with more than 100 types of equipment, shows that leave the microwave plugged in can spend per year, four times more energy than when used at full power for 20 minutes per day. The test proves that leave appliances on standby, the socket or with the red light, waiting for the drive by remote control, generates more spending on electricity bill, and impact the planet.
The researcher Protest Carlos Confort, responsible for the research, said the study was done with the rate of R$ 0.32874 Light (value before adjustment this month) and R$ 0.28117 Eletropaulo, both per Kw / he was made based on a family model with four. Confort says that in practice, the standby mechanism only serves to provide a slightly more rapid response to connect devices such as televisions and home theater systems by remote control, but has virtually no accelerating effect on other devices, such as microwave , for example.
- It's the kind of comfort that can get expensive without the consumer noticing - says.
One of the villains of consumption in standby mode is the microwave, according to Protest. In Rio, if the unit is turned on 20 minutes a day and the rest left in the stand - which only serves to keep in operation the digital clock - it will cost R$ 2.25 more per year in Rio and R$ 1,92 in Sao Paulo.
Similar to the microwave, laptop sound also consumes more standby mode, 20%, to be exact, than when used one hour a day, in low volume for the full year. For these instruments, Confort notes that the test was done by comparing an hour daily use of the equipment and 23 hours in standby mode, which gives an expense of R$ 10.34 more per year in Rio and R$ 8, 84 in Sao Paulo.
In the case of split air conditioning, more economical model, the use of a time each day will make a difference of nearly R$ 8 more per year. Unplugging the TV can save R$ 12 a year, taking into account that would be used for four hours a day and, in the remaining time, I would be on standby. Adding all unnecessary spending average stand by the evaluated units, the survey reached a total of R$ 21 in Rio and R$ 18 in Sao Paulo, a year.
The Protest recommends that, whenever possible, let appliances unplugged or turned off and adopt conscious measures like changing incandescent bulbs for LED or fluorescent, maintain the temperature of the refrigerator less high in less warm days and only buy appliances with the seal Procel of efficiency.
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