Standardization of mobile charging is a necessary move in the right direction for the mobile industry. The Universal Charging Solution(UCS), a charger standard utilizing a micro-usb connection, is projectd to save 13.6 Million Tons of greenhouse gas emissions due to reducing the 51,000 Tons of replacement chargers that are made annually and by increasing efficiency of chargers by 50%.

While eliminating 13.6 million Tons of greenhouse gas emissions is pretty awesome, the backers of the UCS, the mobile industry’s largest players, are missing additional astronomical savings that could easily be included in the UCS to further eliminate unnecessary and dangerous greenhouse gas emissions, like CO2. Why require a 50% reduction in vampire energy and not go for the largest impact, like South Korea has, and aim to finally put a stake through the heart of mobile vampire energy loss?

There is significant data to confirm that eliminating vampire power in mobile chargers would have an added significant global impact, because the money wasted and greenhouse gases emitted are too large to ignore.

Globally, it is estimated that around $256 Billion is wasted annually due to vampire energy loss and 3.3 Trillion pounds (or 1.65 Billion Tons) of Co2 are emitted over that same period. The US Department of Energy estimates that vampire energy sucks around 10% of the average US household’s electricity bill with the Environmental Protection Agency estimating around $10 Billion is lost in the US every year due to vampire electronics. Mobile chargers are one of the most prolific vampire electronics that exist today, because Billions of people across the globe own a cell phone and must charge their device.

To that end, we challenge the mobile industry to include the elimination of vampire energy in the UCS. If the aim is to clean up years of environmental havoc reeked by this industry and truly change the world, then it’s time to stop ignoring the vampires in the room and finally put a stake in vampire energy.

Tags: CO2 emissions, energy savings, Greenhouse gas, phantom load, standby power, UCS, universal charging solution, vampire energy, vampire energy loss, vampire labs, vampire power

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