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"Think of all the stuff you leave plugged in all day. Like the microwave. It's nice having that clock function, and it really doesn't take much energy to run. But over the course of a year, all the electricity you used to run that microwave clock ends up being enough to power 30 hours of microwave cooking time, Peterson says. All the little 'phantom' draws add up, and they bite us hard."
- http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/21/zero-energy-building.html