The standards for desktops, which use far more energy than notebooks, will add about $14 to the retail cost of computers but save consumers more than $40 in electric bills over five years, according to commission estimates.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California regulators moved a step closer on Friday to the first mandatory U.S. energy efficiency standards for computers and monitors, gadgets that account for 3 percent of home electric bills and 7 percent of commercial power costs in the state.
The latest draft standards issued by the California Energy Commission, marking the second revision of rules first proposed in March 2015, would save consumers an estimated $373 million annually when fully implemented, the agency said. MORE
Finally. somebody’s going to do something to fight global warming!
Speaking of computers…
I just got another malicious web site attack while accessing IOTWR (and nothing else). Same as the last 2 times, all occurring within the last week or so.
Anyone else experiencing these?
Details: http://www.tiikoni.com/tis/view/?id=823c9de
This will save consumers zip, they will simply raise the rate for electricity because they’re not selling as much.
Just like when you need to conserve water and then when you do they raise the rates.
Just like when you need to drive a battery car or a matchbox car and they have to raise the rates on gas tax or tax by the mile, you can’t win in the situations, why try?
T; So true. These sob’s are gonna get it one way or another. Constant fleecing of the taxpayer. Constant enriching the politicians. The massive amount of calif sheeple will do nothing but say yes sir to whatever the loons want. Then keep electing the same bastards over and over. Brown is learning from prissypants that he can just sign executive orders like with the climate crap. There is no hope for calif. Who’s in the wings to fix it? Nobody. Our best hope is for a 10.0 quake in sacramento/frisco!
I’ve checked most of my appliances with a kilowatt meter. My computer uses about $1.39 worth of electricity per month. And it’s not exactly new. The ring masters in Circus California are full of shit. How much electricity does it take to charge one of their electric clown cars?
@calsucks September 11, 2016 at 2:27 pm
> Our best hope is for a 10.0 quake in sacramento/frisco!
So, you’re a banker? Expecting everybody else to co-sign a three hundred year mortgage for repairs (and, upgrades, of course; you’ve gotta do the upgrades while you do the repairs, anything else is deplorable, crazy talk).
Everybody else’s “best hope” is for Calmea (or, at least, most of it) to declare it’s sovereign independence from The United States of Fascism, and step to the next UN window and join Mexico.
Most of these Energy Star and other “energy saving” measures were developed when computer monitors were mini CRT-TV screens that drew as much as 250 Watts for a 20″ monitor, which weren’t used much outside CAD and engineering applications. Now all monitors are more efficient flat screen, many hard drives are SSD’s that use less power and absolutely every device has a power saver protocol built into the operating systems.
I strongly suspect there’s a vig being paid somewhere for “green” or “efficiency” certifications or there’s someone who’s set to laugh all the way to the bank when these laws are enacted
at least when the Mexican law enforcement guys extort money from you they’re honest about the fact that they’re extorting, at least from my limited experience
This is mainly about being able to build more subdivisions without bothering to improve the infrastructure at all. Same story with the bullshit drought and forced water usage.
California has a Third World occupational government, and Third World is the absolute best they can manage.
The places these people came from are Third World shitholes for a reason, and it has nothing to do with location.
They need to go back.
Vietvet, and anyone else with the same problems (presumably the three TUs), please get to BFH so he can address the problem.
I haven’t had such, but I also regularly monitor things, plus I use an add-on security program. I would like to tweak it so it uses more power 🙂
Save $40 over 5 years? Eight dollars per year? Less than a dollar per month? On an electrical appliance that is 3% of home bills? Saving $373 million per year? What’s the total population of the state of Kalifornication? About 40 million? So they’re saving, what, about $10 per year?
The Nanny State overreaches and f##ks up again.
@RosalindJ: I thought BFH would see my comment here, but he probably doesn’t have time to look at everything, so I just now sent him an e-mail about it.
My AV program blocks the attacks when they occur, so it’s not really a problem for me, more like a minor annoyance.
Still, I thought it should be reported. Thanks for the suggestion.
🙂
Vievet, I get a nasty scam ad pop up if I use my phone on the go to look through this site. It pops up with an alert to viruses and won’t let me leave the page without making a selection. When I finally am able to navigate away, I’m no longer on iotwr.
I use a tablet at home and it too was getting bombed by this scam advertising. I hated to do it, but I finally installed an ad blocker and haven’t been taken over since. I don’t mind the site making money off ad revenue, but the malicious hijackings are a bit much.
@old_oaks, I am familiar with the fake virus scam ad, which (as you say) starts quacking at you to download their AV product and won’t let you X out of it, thus forcing you to use task manager to cancel the task to free up your computer, but this is not that. This is an actual notification from my Norton Antivirus program that it has just blocked an attack from a malicious website, and I have no doubt that it is true. I don’t want to use an actual ad blocker because I don’t want to mess up IOTWR’s ad revenue. IE does have a feature called Tracking Protection, which will block some of the worst problem pop-ups, and on occasion I have had to turn it on to keep IOTWR from locking up entirely. I never use it unless I have no other alternative, though.
Vietvet, I’ll have to check my PC sometime. I have an office in the basement but refuse to be down there May-Sept unless absolutely necessary. So I rely on my mobile gadgets which don’t offer the options or insight that I have on my PC. It runs Norton and I’ve hit it up a few times in recent weeks, maybe it logged the same as you, I’ll check later today.
Sounds like you live where I live, except we don’t have basements. Still must be hot there, though.
🙂
P.S. – Fur’s got his ad server people checking out the situation. Hopefully they’ll find out what’s going on.