EEVblog #1284 - How Bad Product Design Kills The Environment

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Let's save 30 cents/unit and stuff the environment!
How can bad and cheap product design kill the environment by requiring vastly more energy generation, delivery and PF correction infrastructure?
Dave looks at the shockingly energy wasteful design of mains powered smoke alarms.

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