Another reason to blow up the TV
The San Jose Mercury News makes me say “whoa”:
Over the next decade, our gadget fetish — when combined with microwaves, coffee makers and the like — will require more power than we use to heat or cool our homes….
The nation’s 266 million TV sets already consume about 4 percent of all residential energy. That’s enough to power all the homes in New York state for a year, according to a National Resources Defense Council study.
At this rate, there will be more televisions in the United States than people in the next five years. TV energy consumption will increase by more than 50 percent, as people replace their old sets with high-definition, home theater-size screens.
Plasma displays are particularly porcine, snarfing two to three times as much energy as other types of TV screens.
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