The Vampire In Your Home

It is the DVR or the DVR/cable box. It is almost always fully on and it consumes more power than a modern refrigerator. Most of the time, the boxes are sucking down electricity and nobody is watching.

This happens because a hell of a lot of those things are provided by Comcast or other cable companies and, to be blunt about it, they don't give a frak how much electricity the boxes consume. After all, they're not paying for the power used by the gizmos.

So we go around replacing our old incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs (soon to be LED bulbs) and in the meantime, we've invited the cable companies' power suckers into our homes.

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