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These small savings do matter, because they are low hanging fruit. Convincing people to turn a television off all the way (or better yet, making it automatic)

These small savings do matter, because they are low hanging fruit. Convincing people to turn a television off all the way (or better yet, making it automatic) has no downside with respect to quality of life. Not taking a bath on the other hand certainly affects the quality of life of those around you. Being able to turn off one entire power station because soft standby has been disabled is a small step, but as the cost is insignificant why do you care that the step is only small? One thing you see from incrimental programming is that waiting for the 'final answer' doesn't work, but a large number of small steps does. It's the same in all things.

gregwebs 18y ago
Exactly. There are few places where we can get free energy. Making TVs more energy efficient is one of them, so we may as well do it since it is such an easy task. If you do the math (40W * 24h * 365 * .09 $/kWh) You end up with a savings of $30 a year At 5 seconds to turn off the TV properly you are at $60/hour. Most people would think this is a good rate for their work. Maybe if I try and generalize this to something that it doesn't really apply to by using abstract principles with no math behind them I can get more up votes...