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Taking care of how you maintain your gadgets at home can go a long way in conserving energy, writes G Nagaraj Latest technological developments in appliances and electronics have changed our energy consumption habits. One may not realise it but the energy use of electronic equipments at home often goes unnoticed. A significant percentage of electricity used in our homes can be attributed to the buzz of electronic devices, often consumed by home appliances, entertainment systems and home office equipment. Reports suggest that the domestic sector accounts for 30% of the total energy consumption in the country. Small energy users, including portable devices with battery chargers, also end up contributing a significant share, not because they use a lot of energy individually, but because of their sheer numbers.

While in the US, the Department of Energy works with the Environmental Protection Agency on Energy Star, a programme designed to help consumers lower their energy costs by using energy-efficient products, in India, the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), established by the Ministry of Power, has set up a comparative star labelling system for indoor appliances. This provides information on energy usage to consumers, enabling them to reduce energy bills.

This comparative star labelling system is used on indoor appliances like tubular fluorescent lamps, refrigerators (frost-free and direct cool), and air conditioners, along with appliances like electric geysers etc. More the number of stars, more is the energy efficiency of the appliance. There is tremendous scope to conserve energy by adopting simple measures and practical solutions.

Here are a few simple things you can do to make your living spaces more energy efficient: Opting for energy-efficient office equipment can result in significant energy savings. Depending on their usage, Energy Star labelled computers use 30-65% less energy than those without this label.

Spend more time in low-power mode to save energy while helping the equipment run cooler and last longer.

It’s a common misconception that screen savers reduce a computer monitor’s energy usage. Instead, switch the system to an auto sleep mode or simply turn it off.

Turn the monitor off if a computer needs to be left on. The monitor alone uses more than half the system’s energy. Home electronics

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Unplug appliances when not in use. Several appliances continue to draw a small amount of power even when they are switched off.

Unplug battery chargers when the batteries are fully charged or when chargers are not in use.

Use rechargeable batteries for products such as digital cameras and cordless phones. Studies suggest that rechargeable batteries can turn out to be far more cost-effective as compared to disposable batteries.

Do not leave the power on when TV or audio systems are not in use, as idle operation could lead to an energy loss of 10 watts per device.

Cover liquids and wrap foods stored in a refrigerator. Uncovered foods release moisture and force the compressor to work harder.

Use a timer facility on your washing machine to save energy.

Portable devices

Shut down unused or dormant applications in your laptops or smartphones to prolong the battery life.

When your smartphone’s Wifi or Bluetooth is switched on, it is continuously emitting signals to confirm connectivity, thereby seriously depleting the device’s battery. If you are not using Wifi or Bluetooth on your device, always keep it switched off.

Reduce the screen brightness on your laptops or smartphones from its default setting to reduce battery consumption.

Use the battery on your laptop — constantly using the laptop while on charge can reduce the device’s charging ability.

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While the display is the primary culprit for draining your laptop's battery, I still want to leave you with two pieces of tried-and-true battery life advice.1. Turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth when they aren't needed. Both wireless adapters use battery power to scan for networks and devices and keep you connected.2. Unplug any peripherals when they aren't in use. An unpowered peripheral draws power from your laptop, which means it'll drain the battery when the laptop isn't plugged in.

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Opera has announced a new power-saving mode for the developer version of its web browser, with the company making the ambitious claim that it can increase a Windows laptop's battery life by up to 50 percent, compared to Google's Chrome. When users unplug their laptop from mains power, a little icon appears in the top right of the browser which users must click to activate. Opera claims the power saving comes from a range of tweaks, including reducing memory consumption by background tabs, paused unused plug-ins, and optimizing video playback.

The company's claims are impressive, but we'll have to wait and see how the browser performs in the real world. The battery saving figures come from tests Opera performed on a Lenovo X250 laptop, running Windows 10 with a Core i7 processor and 16GB of RAM. The testing software opened up 11 "popular websites" in the browser (including YouTube), scrolling each five times, leaving them for a minute, and then closing the tab. This was repeated until the laptop ran out of battery.

This isn't a thorough test, and Opera doesn't appear to have compared how the browser performs with different operating systems. The company told The Verge that they'd repeated the test three times, and took an average of those times to reach their headline figure. They also noted that the power-saving mode included ad blockers, which weren't used for the comparison figures. Blocking ads can help preserve battery life, and it's possible that this functionality helped account for the extra battery life.

Skepticism aside, it's certainly good to see Opera putting resources into an issue that plagues laptop users. Google's Chrome browser faced criticisms of unwarranted battery-draining last year, with the company finally making changes to boost the software's performance in September. It's also likely we'll see this power-saving mode graduate from Opera's developer stream to its primary browser in the near future. The company has been quickly integrating new features in the software, including native ad-blocking (on mobile and desktop) and a free VPN (only in the developer stream for now).

If you have a portable PC running Windows 10, you don't need a stopwatch to check its battery life. Like so many other aspects of system performance, Windows keeps detailed records and can display them on command. Here's how to generate a detailed battery report.Right-click Start, click Command Prompt (Admin), and say yes to the User Account Control prompt. At the command line, type cd %userprofile%\Documents and press Enter to change to your personal Documents folder. Type powercfg /batteryreport and press Enter. A status report will confirm you've saved the report to the current folder as an HTML file. Now open File Explorer and double-click the saved battery-report.html file in your Documents folder. It's packed with detailed information about recent battery usage. The Battery Life Estimates table at the bottom lets you see exactly how much you can expect from each charge based on historical performance.

If you are waiting for your laptop's battery to charge fully before heading out for the day, both OS X and Windows 10 will show you the time remaining.Your battery will charge faster, of course, if you leave the lid closed and the screen off. If you are attempting to eek out the last few minutes of charging before running out the door, however, OS X and Windows 10 offer a quick glance at the time remaining before you reach 100 percent battery power. Both platforms also show the time remaining in System Preferences and Settings, respectively. Here's where to find that info.On a MacBook, you can click on the battery icon in the menu bar to see how much time remains before your battery is full. And because you click instead of just hover over the icon, the window remains until you click your touchpad again or hit a key, which lets you keep an eye on the minutes that remain.