Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Power-saving Hoax

Came across one of these things yesterday.  A neighbor was using it in his off-grid home. 
scam-energy-saving-box-01.JPGWe were dumbstruck by the concept, looked at the thing, and determined it was using about 60 watts of power. Below is the interesting 'device':
scam-energy-saving-box-guts.JPGApparently the BBC ran some stories about the elderly being scammed with these things over there.
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