[LINK] Australian energy efficiency standards for personalcomputers and monitors

[Tom Worthington]

At 03:47 PM 16/10/2007, Pilcher, Fred wrote:
>... one of the major power wasters is the plethora of transformers that I need
>to keep plugged in. ...

Yes. The Chinese government requires new mobile phones to use a 
standard USB plug for charging, as of 14 June 2007. This should save 
energy, as having one charger plugged in to charge all mobile the 
phones in a household will be more efficient:

     "The Chinese government is to set a single national standard on 
mobile phone chargers sold in the country to avoid waste and to lower 
costs, the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has announced.

     Under the new standard, all mobile phones, regardless of the 
brand, will be able to share one charger with a USB access, allowing 
users to charge handsets through laptops.

     The unified standard will cut the cost of a new handset and 
reduce electronic waste and consumption of resources, an MII official 
said. ..."

     From: "China spells out national standard for cell phone 
chargers", People's Daily Online , 20:31, December 19, 2006, 
<http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200612/19/eng20061219_334047.html>


     "China's standard of cell phone charger interface was initially 
implemented on June 14th. All domestic cell phones and chargers must 
match the standard. For chargers that are incompatible with each 
other only render more chargers useless after switching cell phones. ..."

     From: Unified standard of cell phone charger interface", 
People's Daily Online , 16:52, June 19, 2007 
<http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200706/19/eng20070619_385693.html>.

ps: Michael Smith will talk about the course he is preparing for 
engineers and IT people on energy efficiency, in Canberra on 21 
November 2007 <http://education.acs.org.au/mod/resource/view.php?id=3723>.



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