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EfficientProducts.org is your source for the latest facts, figures, and research on the energy efficiency of consumer products.
Battery Charger Systems
In just the last two decades, product convenience has improved by leaps and bounds with the growth of an entirely new family of products that incorporate batteries instead of relying always on the wall plug to supply electricity...
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Computers
The personal computer may be one of the most revolutionary and wildly successful consumer products of all time. In the 1990s, the number of U.S. households owning computers jumped from 14.8 million in 1990 to 60 million in 2001 as consumers embraced digital photography...
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Televisions
Purchasing a TV today can be a daunting process. TV shopping used to be about finding the model with the best picture that one could afford, but now consumers need to wade through a sea of acronyms and technical jargon to figure out if their next TV should be standard, DTV, or HDTV...
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Set Top Boxes
When TVs were first introduced into the market, only an antenna was needed to view programming broadcast through the air. But over time, a number of other services have been introduced to supplement and expand the entertainment provided by broadcast TV, including video games...
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Monitors
In the early days of computing, users stared at drab monochrome screens displaying green or white text. In just a few decades, monitors have evolved to match the ever more powerful video capabilities of computers, displaying digital photos, movies, and complex life-like video games...
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What's new?
Revision 2.1.4 Final California Battery Charger Systems Test Procedure
How Low Can You Go? A White Paper on Cutting Edge Efficiency in Commercial Desktop Computers
How Low Can You Go? Pushing the Limits of Energy Efficiency in Desktop Computers
Save 10% or More of Your TV's Energy Use TODAY
California Battery Charger Systems Test Procedure Comment and Response Document
NRDC Study of Set-Top Box Efficiency
What is efficiency?
Efficiency is a measure of return on investment. Every process whether lighting a light bulb or running a car requires some amount of energy “investment” to perform, but only a fraction of that energy actually goes on to do useful work like illuminating your room or moving passengers down a highway. The useful work performed divided by the original total energy investment (usually expressed as a percent) is the energy efficiency.
For research, events and test methods on power supply efficiency...

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