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Metro Lighting's energy efficient series by Nick Frisella: iPhone

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My iPhone uses more power than a what?!!

A new survey by the Digital Power Group, a tech investment advisory, found that the average iPhone uses more energy in a year than a midsize refrigerator.

The survey, titled The Cloud Begins with Coal: Big Data, Big Networks, Big Infrastructure, and Big Power”, states the world’s Information Communication Technology ecosystem, which includes smart phones and server farms, takes up about 10% of the of the world’s energy. And on top of that, our smartphones are requiring even more energy. The paper claims it takes more energy to stream a high definition movie to a smart phone than it does to ship a DVD of the same film.

“As anyone who has ever tried to husband the battery of a dying smart phone knows, transmitting wireless data, whether 3G or wi-fi, adds significantly to power use. As the cloud grows bigger and bigger, and we put more and more of our devises on wireless networks, we’ll need more and more electricity.” - Researcher Brian Walsh 
Source: tED Magazine

I was truly shocked when I read the above article today.  I consider myself fairly eco-friendly and I had never even considered that my iPhone could be such a large consumer of energy. Perhaps it is because I have a slightly unhealthy relationship with my iPhone. How could something I love some much be an energy hog? Now that I know my iPhone has been wasting energy behind my back it is time to update my energy conservation plan.

1) Charge your phone BEFORE you go to bed

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1) Don’t be afraid to turn your phone off.  (It will be ok, at least that is what I keep telling myself.)

3) Unplug your charger from the outlet when you are not charging your phone (an oldie but a goodie)

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