Goodbye standby mode?

According to Engadget standby modes on electronic devices eat up 8% of the UK's energy. That's incredible! And a complete waste. Crazy.

So they're thinking of outlawing it, and from my California environment-friendly perspective (although I do drive an SUV... guess no one's perfect), that's a great idea. It's not like we "need" standby mode.

But then part of me is also like, holy cow, that's going to cause a ton of extra work for lots and lots of companies...

Maybe instead of outlawing standby they should require that devices using standby include their own solar energy cells.