Did you know? Playstations, plasma TVs and PCs 'burn up power'

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Games consoles such as the Sony Playstation 3 can burn up to five times more energy than a medium sized refrigerator, a Choice study has found. The consumer magazine found a Sony Playstation 3, switched on but not in use, could cost almost $250 a year in electrical bills, whereas a fridge would cost less than $50 a year. Plasma television sets were among the top energy guzzlers, consuming more than four times as much energy as a traditional analogue set. The average desktop PC, tested independently of its monitor, was third on the list of top energy consumers. However, the PC's Apple equivalent, the iMac, an all-in-one model with a built-in display, used just two-thirds of the energy consumed by a monitor-less PC. LCD computer monitors were found to use only about half as much energy as the older cathode-ray tube monitors. The study also found that devices placed on stand-by can cost just $15 a year. http://au.news.yahoo.com/080603/2/174ah.html