Tons of energy is being wasted every year by gaming consoles in idle mode according to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.<\/p>\n
A study on the energy consumption of games consoles shows that 68 percent of all energy consumed by consoles in 2010 happened when the device was in idle mode.<\/p>\n
This equates to 10.8 TWh of energy, and around $1.24 billion (R9.72 billion) in electricity costs.<\/p>\n
The study also found that 1 percent of all residential energy consumption in the United States was due to gaming consoles.<\/p>\n
“We demonstrate that the most effective energy-saving modification is incorporation of a default auto power down feature, which could reduce electricity consumption of game consoles by 75 percent (10 TWh reduction of electricity in 2010),” said the study\u2019s authors.<\/p>\n
Game consoles such as the Xbox 360<\/a> already incorporate auto power down features, which have a standby mode that powers down the console if it remains idle for more than an hour.<\/p>\n Updated software for the PlayStation 3<\/a> can add power management features to the consoles, however this is disabled by default and users have to manually adjust settings.<\/p>\n Gaming consoles waste billions of rands in energy every year in idle mode<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":35575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,4],"tags":[31,3639,2486,129,79],"class_list":["post-36317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-nintendo","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-carnegie-mellon-university","tag-nintendo-wii","tag-playstation-3","tag-xbox-360"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36322,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36317\/revisions\/36322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Read the full story at: Cnet<\/a>.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"