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Monday
Jan302012

How to Find Out if You are Using the Most Energy-Efficient Efficient Devices

With all the energy-saving technological advances in electronic devices like computers and mobile phones, how are you supposed to know whether you are using the most energy-efficient ones around?

Well, there’s a website for that.

So if it matters to you how “green” your laptop, notebook, cell phone, etc. are, you should go to EPEAT which is short for Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool.

As this USA Today article explains EPEAT can be a great resource for determining whether any computer, cell phone etc. is green enough to have earned the US Environmental Protection Agency’s “Energy Star” designation.

Question: what is the most energy-efficient TV model on the market today?

Answer, according to EPEAT: the 15-inch Insignia (model NS-15E720A12).