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 * Mr. Nye's 7th Grade Class (2015-2016)File: Student appliance spreadsheet in excel.xlsx**

Your Task: Use your classroom combined data to answer the questions below to share in how to save the world.

1. What were the biggest vampires you found? The Samsung TV was by far the biggest vampire with a standby wattage of 11 watts!

Next worst was the Magnavox TV with 4.9 watts of vampire power.

Coming in third on the offenders’ list was the Panasonic microwave with 3.8 watts of “phantom load”.

Fourth thirstiest was a tie between the HP envy printer and the Keurig coffee maker each with 3.3 standby watts.

2. How much money could your class save each month by unplugging vampires? For the 25 devices listed on our spread sheet we could save $4.86 per month if these were all owned by one person.

If we assumed that everyone in our grade (68 kids) had this much vampire power, that would result in a possible savings of $330.48 per month.

3. How much CO2 would be reduced if your class unplugged the vampires each month?

For the 25 devices we would save 45.6 pounds of CO2 per person per month. Assuming all students had all devices and got rid of all phantom load, a savings of 3,100.8 pounds per month of CO2 would result!

4. What was the most surprising thing you found while studying this standby power unit?

I was most surprised by how the savings in CO2 added up if we calculated what would happen if everyone in the state of Maine would reduce or eliminate the phantom loads in their houses. We came up with a total of 2,021,600 pounds a day if everyone in the state had those same 25 appliances.

Realizing that was unrealistic, we then calculated that if every four people had those appliance and got rid of phantom load we would still reduce CO2 in the air by 505,400 pounds a day! That is a LOT of CO2!

My TV releases a lot of CO2! (indirectly of course)

It’s kind of crazy how a lot of little actions can add up to AMAZING savings in $ and CO2. We’re not sure that many people realize the impact their small actions can have.

Also we were surprised by how standby power is pretty useless yet creeps up on us with it’s loss of dollars and addition of more CO2 to our atmosphere, making climate change happen faster!

I am now more aware of how much standby power is going on in my house and the houses of my friends. It is time to declare WAR on phantoms!

Student-created video related to climate change.

Attach your classroom spreadsheet used for these calculations.