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Cable Boxes Consume More Energy than Refrigerators PDF Print E-mail
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ConsumerAffairs.com reports that "U.S. boxes consume annual output of nine power plants"

"What's the biggest energy hog in your home? Your refrigerator? Your microwave? Not even close, says the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

In a report, NRDC says the cable TV set-top box, present in about 80 percent of U.S. homes, consumed approximately 27 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2010. That's equivalent to the annual output of nine average coal-fired power plants.

You can read the full article here.

You can read a pdf of the NRDC report here.

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