Electric Vehicle will save our planets at least? Not really, if you left your electronic devices at home running 24-hours per day, every single day through spring, summer, fall and snow. You sir, do not know how much that’ll cost you for not switching off that socket, even though your Tee Vee is off.

A research project with the patronizing goal of plummeting electronics’ power consumption by ten times and virtually eliminating so-called ‘vampire power’ may receive the ‘meh’ from typical citizens of Janes and Joes, but this is not your ordinary project. Yes, this new “steeper” is led by the mighty IBM and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (or EPFL), the EU-funded project will use nanotechnology in an attempt to reduce power consumption at the level of transistors and nanowires, with the ultimate goal being to reduce the operating voltage to less than 0.5 volts, thereby reducing overall power consumption by one order of magnitude.

As you can see from the ‘vampiric chart’ above, simply cutting back on vampire power alone could put a big dent in power consumption, and the researchers also note that the project would obviously not only benefit consumer electronics, but super computers and other big sources of power consumption as well. Yes, remember their names. “Steeper”. You’ll need to thank them when they manage to lower your monthly bill by some quarter.

SOURCE via Reuters