November 13, 2008 - Video games have provided tons of family
fun over the last few years, even allowing some of us rock star wannabes to
perform center stage (well, center living room stage). But these boxes of fun
have also been shown to be large energy consumers, even in their idle mode.
One study showed recently that when left idle, certain game boxes can use over
100 W waiting for someone to come back in the room and take the controls. And
some games consume almost 10 W even when they enter into their standby mode.
