{"id":120,"date":"2007-05-07T23:54:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T03:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2007\/05\/07\/ecovampires-in-your-bedroom\/"},"modified":"2007-05-07T23:54:29","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T03:54:29","slug":"ecovampires-in-your-bedroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2007\/05\/07\/ecovampires-in-your-bedroom\/","title":{"rendered":"(eco)Vampires in your bedroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doonesbury.com\/strip\/dailydose\/index.html?uc_full_date=20070506\">Doonesbury<\/a> touched on one of my major ecological concerns: standby power and the LED lights that give them away. Trudeau is usually either earnest or obviously sarcastic in  his strips, but this one&#8217;s hard to read. The (increasingly-mannish) Alex observes to her roommate, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it thrilling? A roomful of technology in standby mode, ready to leap to life and serve us!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/matthew_parris\/article691025.ece\">much debate<\/a> over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5571582\">how much power devices in &#8220;standby&#8221; consume<\/a> (also known as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Standby_power\">vampire power<\/a>&#8220;), there&#8217;s no question that our modern technologies are not costless. Those LEDs are twinkling reminders: &#8220;turn me off!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday&#8217;s Doonesbury touched on one of my major ecological concerns: standby power and the LED lights that give them away. Trudeau is usually either earnest or obviously sarcastic in his strips, but this one&#8217;s hard to read. The (increasingly-mannish) Alex observes to her roommate, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it thrilling? A roomful of technology in standby mode, ready [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eco-computing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}