[LINK] Australian energy efficiency standards for personalcomputers and monitors

[jim birch]

On 18/10/2007, steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> To be generous, let's assume 5ma - 1% of rated power. And spread that
> over 24 hours - or 25% of a full-hour operation.
> I've assumed only 0.5 hour charging/day - so 50% of this.
>
> For Australia, mobile chargers doing nothing, can't add more than ~300kW
> of load.
> And China, maybe 15MW...

Interesting numbers, maybe it's not as big as I expected.  But, I'd
have thought that most people don't have efficient switched chargers
(me: 1 in 6 in the house, haven't checked the office); most chargers
aren't well designed and manufactured - they run warm; most people
leave them on all the time to charge the phone, mp3 things, etc, for
30 minutes every couple of days; and if they had usb charging they'd
charge them at computers that are *already on*.

Jim