Your Cable Boxes Secretly Cost You an Extra $100 a Year. Each.

Well, this is a tremendously fascinating post from The Green Miles. Go to the link to read the rest.
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 Cable boxes are the single biggest energy users in many homes, each one sucking nearly $100 a year out of your wallet. "The seemingly innocuous appliances — all 224 million of them across the nation — together consume as much electricity as produced by four giant nuclear reactors, running around the clock," reports Ralph Vartabedian reports for the Los Angeles Times. 

I thought I'd see how much heat is needlessly thrown off by my Comcast box made by Motorola, so I put a thermometer on it and went out to run some errands.  

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Click on this linkie and see what Miles found out!