Earth Day, turn those amps OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@elliottbnewcombjr , Thank you for the clarification, I suffer from being too serious and must constantly be reminded of “ Rule 62 “. Being in a less serious state of mind I usually default to “ Despicable Me “ and the first thing that comes to mind is a Minion saying BANANA . 😆  @hilde45 , interesting equation regarding air travel. I pulled up my solar app and last year my system prevented 10.3 tons of CO2 from being released. FWIT my son in law is a Navy jet pilot instructor and he flys 4-5 days per week. I can only imagine what the Artemis rocket produced when it punched that massive hole in the atmosphere. 

@parkergetdean - those are all wise suggestions:

I long for the day when there is real cloned "artificial meat" without raising and killing animals.

I don't drive at all. I haven't even been on an airplane since 2020. 

I live in San Francisco, and with our weather, not many people have A/C if they have windows that open. We use heat a lot during our summers, though!

Our tap water tastes great and that is just about the only thing I drink. 

And I turn off my gear when not in use (except for my DAC). 

Tiny carbon footprint, me... 

"real cloned artificial meat"

Everything man-made has risks. Due your own due diligence before blindly trusting anything dietary especially that which is "cloned".

I've enjoyed this discussion...but being a relatively new Audiophile, can you vets please enlighten me? I have the following:

SONY 940C TV

Anthem MRX 1140 AVR

Anthem MCA 325 (3-channel amp)

Accuphase E-5000

Eversolo dmp A-8 Streamer

JTR RS/1 Sub

My question is which of these is okay to leave on all the time? My JTR sub, Eversolo Streamer, Anthem AVR and Anthem Amp are in "standby" mode 24-7. The Anthems and the sub are awakened from standby and activated (daisy chain triggered when I turn my TV on). The only piece of gear I turn on and off at least once a day is the Accuphase. It hurts me a bit every time I do so because I'm afraid of the "wear and tear" by pressing that button and powering it on and off if I don't have to. Should I be minimizing this?  Is it "better" to just keep the Accuphase on all day and shut it off only at night? I can't imagine leaving it on 24-7 as although it creates very little (if any) heat at idle, it just seems counterintuitive to let it run nonstop. Can someone educate me as to what is best practice for the longetivity of the gear? 

@lewm 

NOW I’m glad I started this, you two ought to get together.

Did I see that she died at 51 years old? I wasn’t sure that was the correct Pam.

@waytoomuchstuff 

I sometimes wonder what leaving nearly everything on standby adds up to, individually. Collectively, it’s gotta be considerable, not major, but still ....

I walk around my small house, glowing lights hither and thither. Not my stereo, On goes the Chase, on goes the Furman, on goes the Preamp/Amp/TT. Wait 20 mins, listen. The CD and R2R have physical on/off switches, no standby, so off unless I use them. All off when done listening.

Video: TV, AVR, Blu-Ray, TV box all on standby. Routers (2) always on when sleeping, my Office, below the desk looks like the glowing tree in Avatar, but the amp, TT, R2R are fully off.

Garage/Shop system fully off.

Toothbrush unplugged till it asks for a charge, no kitchen stuff on standby.

Sump Pumps (4) (2 AC and 2 Battery Backup) on trickle chargers/inverters.