Green Tip: Remove that Laptop Battery!
Posted by jfuriosi on March 28, 2009
I thought I was saving energy by having my laptop battery in all the time so I could run it for an hour without needing the cord.
Turns out I was wrong! As the One Tip a Day web site attests, you use more energy overcharging the battery than you do from the limited periods you run the laptop on just the battery.
A guy in the tech department told me I was reducing the life of the battery. He told me to drain the battery completely. Put it in for a full charge, and then remove it. Put it in when you want to be plug free.
I thought being green meant disconnecting from the grid but having the battery in all the time increases the amount of power my laptop uses. Granted, laptops still use a lot less electricity than desktops.
