Interesting. Take an old product that's been on the market for years, paint it green, and sell it as the latest environmentally friendly gadget, even though it draws power itself, and of course requires disposable batteries for the handset.
The whole standby argument is nonsense anyway. Most British houses have central heating, and anyone who is environmentally conscious will have it on a thermostat. Those few watts that leak out from equipment on standby will end up warming the room and will be compensated for by the fact that the thermostat will shut off the central heating a few minutes earlier. If your room stays at the same temperature, then obviously the net input of energy is the same, whether from standby electrical items (which might come from renewable sources) or central heating (likely to be non-renewable gas).
Maybe if the UK had a climate where airconditioning was the norm there might be some reason for this, but otherwise it's just more ill-informed scaremongering from people that either don't know what they're talking about themselves, or who want to make money out of the gullible.
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Interesting. Take an old product that's been on the market for years, paint it green, and sell it as the latest environmentally friendly gadget, even though it draws power itself, and of course requires disposable batteries for the handset.
The whole standby argument is nonsense anyway. Most British houses have central heating, and anyone who is environmentally conscious will have it on a thermostat. Those few watts that leak out from equipment on standby will end up warming the room and will be compensated for by the fact that the thermostat will shut off the central heating a few minutes earlier. If your room stays at the same temperature, then obviously the net input of energy is the same, whether from standby electrical items (which might come from renewable sources) or central heating (likely to be non-renewable gas).
Maybe if the UK had a climate where airconditioning was the norm there might be some reason for this, but otherwise it's just more ill-informed scaremongering from people that either don't know what they're talking about themselves, or who want to make money out of the gullible.