Today's
Environmental Leader included a story entitled:
Verizon Aims to Cut Carbon Intensity by Half by 2020 (also reported by
Tree Hugger).
"We're going to reduce our carbon footprint fifty percent," Lowell McAdam, Verizon's CEO, said in a sit-down with Bloomberg's Alix Steel. "We are now beginning to install solar arrays for powering our cell tower sites, and we've got our first data center powered by geothermal going in."
I am a FIOS customer of Verizon in Northern Virginia. When we had Fios service installed, they placed a backup box unit
in my house that draws a continuous 20 watts. 24/7/365. It does not
power down when the battery is charged nor when there is no call for
service. Just a constant 20 watts. That costs me (and all customers) about $20
per year. Not a lot, but a nice lunch.
I cannot turn this box off. If I unplug it, then it just draws down the battery until it's used up, which is senseless. I could pull the battery out, too, but that's a lot of effort--not as easy as pushing a power strip switch, which I can do with my wireless router.
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