As some of you may remember, I made it a bit of a personal mission to get people to behave electronically responsibly late last year in the run up to the holiday season. I admit, I was spurred on by reports of the Xbox360's gargantuan power useage.
Well, I'm pleased to see the results of an unofficial poll which Joystiq is currently running which suggests that over half of the 6,000+ respondents make a conscious effort to turn off their consoles when they're finished with them.
From their post:
In June last year, UK Environment Minister Elliot Morley revealed that people that leave their TVs sets and other gadgets on standby mode waste roughly "7TWh of energy" of the National Grid's energy per year. According to the Energy Saving Trust, CO2 emissions from the generation of energy required to keep game consoles on standby amounts to roughly 390,000 tonnes annually. That's a big waste and a large contribution to global warming, especially for something people aren't actually using.
