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Playstation 3 Consumes More Power Than A Fridge
It's all well and good to swap out your old incandescent light bulbs for compact fluorescent ones, but if you're still glued to your PS3 for multiple hours a day, then you're nowhere close to being energy efficient.
I wonder if anyone is working on a solar-powered, portable gaming console?
According to a study by Australian consumer group Choice, video game consoles such as Sony Playstation 3 consumes five times more energy than a medium sized refrigerator.They found out that a medium sized refrigerator of about 12 cu. ft. volume (60 inches in height) will cost $50 a year while Sony Playstation 3 will cost $250 a year even if it is not in use and only turned on. Microsoft XBox came second behind Playstation 3.
Choice is the largest consumer organization in Australia with over 200,000 subscribers.
Study showed that apart from game consoles, Plasma televisions consume four times more energy than a traditional analogue set. Incredibly, the Playstation 3 consumed over ten times as much power as the Nintendo Wii.
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June 3, 2008 at 01:20 pm by Jarrett Martineau, 442 views, 6 comments
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GAwes88at 05:07 on June 4th, 2008
This is my apartments fridge with all our nicknames on it
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at 06:18 on June 4th, 2008
Jarrett Martineau, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 06:31 on June 4th, 2008
From www.random-good-stuff.com
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at 08:10 on June 4th, 2008
Yeah, but can your fridge play God of War 2? No. No, it cannot.
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markswebat 14:37 on June 4th, 2008
This is certainly news to me, and interesting news at that. So i'm happy to include my photo!
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at 20:53 on June 5th, 2008
Jarrett Martineau, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Thanks for using my pic