{"id":647,"date":"2009-06-21T14:13:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T14:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2009\/06\/a-lowtech-trick-to-eliminate-standby-power-consumption.html"},"modified":"2018-09-16T18:54:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T16:54:30","slug":"a-lowtech-trick-to-eliminate-standby-power-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2009\/06\/a-lowtech-trick-to-eliminate-standby-power-consumption.html","title":{"rendered":"A Low-tech Trick to Eliminate Standby Power Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/standby-power-consumption.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4055\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/standby-power-consumption.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Standby power use is the electricity consumed by appliances and other equipment when they are switched off or not performing their primary purpose. It is responsible for 3 to 12 percent of residential electricity use worldwide (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osti.gov\/bridge\/servlets\/purl\/795343-kBNZ2M\/native\/795343.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>, pdf). Freelance journalist Robert Buzink has a <a href=\"http:\/\/robertbuzink.com\/2009\/red-de-wereld-op-zondag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">low-tech solution<\/a> for this &#8211; all you need is a pair of scissors and a screwdriver. The text is in Dutch but the pictures speak for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standby power use is the electricity consumed by appliances and other equipment when they are switched off or not performing their primary purpose. It is responsible for 3 to 12 percent of residential electricity use worldwide (source, pdf). Freelance journalist Robert Buzink has a low-tech solution for this &#8211; all you need is a pair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,200,15,315,263],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}