Cellphone Chargers waste 95% electricity
I’ve been a mobile phone user for 10 years now, and i got to tell you, its the first time i’ve learned of this fact.
When you plug your mobile phone charger on your favorite outlet in your house or office, do you know that it only gives 5% of the electricity that it takes in to your mobile phone? So where does the 95% of the consumed electricity go to? Well, your charger eats it all up!
Plus… when you don’t unplug your charger after use, it continues to convert the current thus continuously using up electricity!
So what?
- You consume more electricity than you need
- Increase in cost – payment for electricity that you used
- Might overheat and cause fire
- Bad for the environment
It will keep drawing almost as much energy as when charging and you will generate 35-70 kg of avoidable CO2 each year – source
So that’s one of the reasons why your charger heats up!
Remember, don’t be like MiGs, after you finished charging your phone, plug it out of that wall!
April 18th, 2008 at 8:42 am
i just unplugged my almost 3-day plugged n70 phone in my desk haha
April 18th, 2008 at 8:44 am
It’s not only the cellphone charger which wastes energy. Almost every AC-DC device wastes electrical energy during the process of stepping down and converting AC to DC. The energy is converted into heat and electricity. most of the energy being converted are turned into heat, such a waste.