EU banned electricity eater power supplies.

Soon it is the power of the spinning collar: From next year, power supplies, such as MP3 players and mobile phones with electricity in the EU meet stringent criteria. This is to save enough energy to a small country for a whole year supply.

 

Power supplies are one of the worst sort of Stromverschwendern. Even if they are not active, no device power, no battery fill consume most of your electricity - not too tight. Of course you can prove this fact simply by dividing the heat makes test. Is a power adapter into the outlet, but that no device is connected, you can feel after a short time anyway warming. That's power, totally useless in the heat is converted. And the millions of times, throughout the world.

Energy consumption of power: From 2010, the current transformer within the EU more stringent requirements

But you can totally avoid the current transformer does not. They are essential for the electricity, for example, in Germany with 220 volts from the wall outlet comes into tension converted the sensitive innards of modern entertainment and communication electronics tastes better. These are mostly 12 or 5 volts. The fact that the conversion of the voltage losses even occur is hard to avoid the devices but also consume energy at idle, a little more reliable circumstance.

And just wants the EU Commission is now off. As the Commission in Brussels on Monday announced, are in the EU from early 2010 onwards more stringent requirements for power supplies.

The energy losses from power supplies to the regulation by the year 2020 by approximately one third will be reduced, said a Commission spokesman. Moreover, said the spokesman, the regulation will in all EU Member States are directly applicable, should therefore no longer laborious be transposed into national law.

More expensive are the new power supply models, according to the information but not if the tougher rules gradually from early summer 2010 and continue in force in 2011. From that moment on, the stocks in the stores no longer filled with old equipment, said the spokesman.

Provided that initially the worst eater in the electricity trade must disappear. Already purchased power supplies could be further exploited.

EU-wide, the Commission of the action with a total of nine Terra Watt hours saved - equivalent to roughly the amount of electricity to Lithuania in a whole year. The annual greenhouse emissions of greenhouse gases in the EU will be achieved through the measure by more than three million tons to go back.