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Save the Power

My energy bills really are becoming a pain. The last one was around one hundred bucks so I was happy to go and read this article I saw while scanning my RSS feeds. It gives a couple pointers that I thought were kind of interesting. I’ve heard that any kind of power adapter draws power even though the device that it attaches to isn’t around and this article says so too. When I get home I’ll spend a couple minutes searching around the house trying to see how many I have plugged in. I’m sure it probably won’t do much for my bill since my house was built in the 50′s and is insulated with tin cans and old newspapers but every little bit counts.

Author: Dirk Watkins

Dirk Watkins was born in Door County. He studied computer science and art at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Dirk now works as a web application developer in Milwaukee programming mostly in c#, javascript, sql queries and the occasional actionscript. For design he likes to utilize as much css (positioning and styles) as possible. Dirk uses Dreamweaver, Visual Studio 2005, Flash and Photoshop daily and lots of other random programs frequently. In his spare time Dirk plays guitar, reads, listens to NPR, works on his house, and sleeps on quiet beaches.

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