OT:Iphone uses more Kwh than a fridge?!!

redtom · Aug 16, 2013

Maybe I missed something but, ABC news just showed a piece that said the iphone uses more power than your fridge! With the charger of course. That's a pretty skinny cord on that charger to use more juice than my fridge. haha

JML755 · Aug 16, 2013

(quoted from post at 16:42:55 08/16/13) Maybe I missed something but, ABC news just showed a piece that said the iphone uses more power than your fridge! With the charger of course. That's a pretty skinny cord on that charger to use more juice than my fridge. haha

don't think so, but if it's on the news or Internet, it MUST be true, eh? :roll:

Geo-TH,In · Aug 16, 2013

ABC, get real. Must be a slow news day or a new reporter that needed a story.

Bob M · Aug 16, 2013

Now that's a good one!

Obviously the idiot(s) responsible for the story have not even a glimmer of understanding of basic physics...

pete black · Aug 16, 2013

these are the same folks that tell us the crime rate is down, homosexuality is normal and planned parenthood is not about killing babies.

Mike Kork · Aug 16, 2013

Which do you think uses more energy — your fridge or your iPhone?
1 day ago

That little device in your hand you've been using to play Candy Crush? It takes up more energy than that big thing in your kitchen that keeps all your food (or, if you're a bachelor in his 20s, your mustard and beer) cool. This is according to Mark Mills, CEO of Digital Power Group, a tech investment advisory. A newly published paper by Mills demonstrates that a midsize refrigerator that qualifies for the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star rating uses about 322 kilowatt-hours a year, while your smartphone uses about 361 kwh (when you combine wireless connections, data usage and battery charging). Is that Fruit Ninja high score worth it?

Just a quick copy and paste but the phone is on 24, 7, fridge not so much.
And how did seksual ordination and killing babies get mixed up in this topic?

Mike Kork · Aug 16, 2013

Smartphones and tablets require a negligible amount of energy to charge, but watching an hour of video each week for an entire year requires more total energy than two refrigerators. The true culprits aren’t the devices, but the stuff running in the background that supports wireless connections that are always on.

JDemaris · Aug 16, 2013

Just another silly non-fact based news story. Iphones, on average use 3.5-4 KWh per yer. An average new refrigerator around 335 KWh per year. I.e, the frig uses around 100 times more then an Iphone, Galaxy, etc. But the news people are trying to include energy used to maintain the internet infrastructure that enables wireless use.

What these news-jerks have done is little different than saying a VW car gets less then 1 MPG when figuring in the cost of fueling the plant that built it, heating the homes of the VW factory workers, etc.

Dick2 · Aug 16, 2013

Saw on the morning news that COFFEE is causing more deaths. They didn't say what research was done to come to that conclusion. Now the lobbyists and PR people will go to work and soon you will see an announcement that COFFEE is beneficial to your health.

redtom · Aug 16, 2013

I think they said the phone was ~261kwh and the fridge avg~236... something like that

tomtirediron · Aug 16, 2013

100% true

Mike (WA) · Aug 16, 2013

And don't forget the greeners including the energy from the sun in figuring the total energy consumed in producing ethanol from corn. . .

JayinNY · Aug 16, 2013

I'm a French model, aaah, bonjour! Lol

farmer boy · Aug 16, 2013

They're talking about the servers, cell towers, etc. that is used to keep the average Iphone running. Bet when they figure the enviromental footprint of mobile internet, they'll use the same figure over again.

John T · Aug 16, 2013

"They cant put anything on the internet that isnt true"

John T (Tongue in cheek)

gwstang · Aug 16, 2013

(quoted from post at 17:18:34 08/16/13) "They cant put anything on the internet that isnt true"

John T (Tongue in cheek)

Such as, maybe...the N's are the greatest tractors of all time...Yeah I got one. It might out pull a mule on a good day...lol :shock:

donjr · Aug 16, 2013

Liars figure and figures lie....

NCWayne · Aug 16, 2013

Read an article several years back in Machine Design magazine about a study done on the environmental cost of a Hummer, and a Prius. Seems the Hummer might use more fuel than a Prius but it's actual environmental impact (cost to the environment) was less than the Prius by a large amount. Basically the Hummer uses easily recyclible materials, used alot of off the shelf technology that didn't require the effort and expense of teams of engineers to design, no special handling of the recycliables (like the Prius batteries, etc), etc, etc, etc. Ultimately the Hummer's total cost to the environment from conception to scrap yard was about half of the cost of the Prius. Now if you wanted to be really environmentally friendly one of the old, origional, VW bugs was way below either of the others listed.

True or not I don't know, but when you think about the facts stated they really make sense. Too, they did tell who did the study, etc so it would have been fairely easy to look it up and read the whole thing.

NEKS · Aug 16, 2013

Iphones ought to slow down globle warming. They are not working up a sweat standing still punching on that phone.

Texasmark1 · Aug 17, 2013

Already did. It was a few days ago on Google. This must be in response to it.

MarkB_MI · Aug 17, 2013

I didn't see the piece (seldom watch the tube), but I suspect their point is we don't usually know the true cost of anything. Coal is a cheap source of energy, but only if you don't factor in all its hidden environment costs. Google is one of the largest consumers of energy in the country, but we never think about that when we do a web search; for us it's "free".

Anonymous-0 · Aug 17, 2013

Didn't you know that everything is a commy-lib
conspiracy agin good freedom lovin 'mercans?
Heard it on a radio talk show..must be true.

sotxbill · Aug 17, 2013

If you take the peak charging current and use that, then your wrong. You dont use that amount of electricity 24 hours a day.

Only when your charging it.

While I havent looked at the numbers, its a bit hard for me to believe.

T in NE · Aug 18, 2013

uh, bonjer

T in NE · Aug 18, 2013

The Prius uses materials that are hard to find, too. Considering the old 6.2 and 6.5 and first-gen Cummins trucks could easily get 20+ MPG (better than any fresh-off-the-line truck today) and are still viable transportation options 20+ years later, easily recycled, and rebuildable, Chevy and Dodge were "green" before green was "green".

Then you add in the additional battery the Prius (and let's not forget the Volt here, too, or at least the ones that don't burn up sitting in a parking lot)) is going to need every 5-7 years or so and it gets even worse.

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