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Giant plasma TVs face ban in battle to green Britain – Green Living, Environment – The Independent — Meanwhile when engineers calculate the energy used per square inch of display — a more meaningful calculation — the difference is either nil, or the plasma has better numbers than a CRT. So the real anti-green thing here is the size, period. Smaller is greener, should be the catch-phrase.
Energy-guzzling flatscreen plasma televisions will soon be banned as part of the battle against climate change, ministers have told The Independent on Sunday.
“Minimum energy performance standards” for televisions are expected to be agreed across Europe this spring, they say, and this should lead to “phasing out the most inefficient TVs”. At the same time, a compulsory labelling system will be drawn up to identify the best and worst devices.
The moves, which follow last week’s withdrawal of the 100W incandescent lightbulb, are part of a drive to slow the rapid growth of electricity consumption in homes by phasing out wasteful devices and introducing more efficient ones. Giant plasma televisions – dubbed “the 4x4s of the living room” – can consume four times as much energy as traditional TVs that used cathode ray tubes (CRTs).
Over the past 30 years, the number of electric appliances and gadgets in a typical home has almost trebled – from 17 to 47 – as a host of devices from scanners to security systems, cappuccino makers to computer game consoles have joined the more traditional kettles, irons, vacuum cleaners and cookers.
Found by Joe Carlson.
Interesting story, as next generation plasmas are going to cut power usage by half. Due to the limited number of plasma screen makers, could there be an industry-based motive behind this?
“The moves, which follow last week’s withdrawal of the 100W incandescent lightbulb, are part of a drive to slow the rapid growth of electricity consumption in homes by phasing out wasteful devices and introducing more efficient ones. ”
It’s obvious that the PC’s/greens/global-warmers want western societies to be as advanced as the least developed African nation. They’re way more green than any of us. We should follow their example.
#2 – Did you enjoy going to Macworld?
Standby power dissipation, is the real issue here. My plasma TV dissipates 10W in standby, at much as a modern WiFi router left on. But it replaced a 14 year old CRT TV which was a wonderful source of XRays, ozone gas and 50lb of leaded glass.
WELL,
lets see what happens with the 200hz NEW systems coming out..OR if we are heading to the Laser Projection mitshubishi..WHICH takes <1/2 the power..and has a better picture and LIFE SPAN.
#3 Nah. To busy in Sudan studying green technologies.
Aside from snow leopard being delayed, what else kept stevereeno from attending? And don’t tell me it was the Hormonal Imbalance BS.
Ooohh nooooo! They’re trying to ban our god-given right to watch Hannah Montana on a 102″ screen!
Forget war, famine, disease, pestilence, and gay marriage. This is simply intolerable!
#6,
It was the last Macworld. Apple is going to CES next year and I suspect thats the end of it.
#5 – The laser projection systems are hype, just like the 3D stuff being pitched about. The TV market is in for a rude awakening, because we’re hitting a window where picture quality isn’t going to improve for a few years, which is what drives sales.
#6 – The real story is that Jobs has never been a fan of Macworld, but needed the event to cater to the Mac converted. Now that iPod/iPhone buyers are base of the company, he can finally get away from this event and Apple can talk to customers on their own terms.
#7 – Angry Whopper is a Hannah Montana fan. No shock there.
#8 – Based on the communication my company has had with IDG, I’m convinced the event will go on in 2010. No one, not even IDG, knows if enough people will show to justify the event beyond that.
As for Apple going to CES, while I know the Mac blogs are all a tither over it, I see it as a non-story. CES isn’t a public event, and only serves Apple to show that their devices are better than the competition… which is the air the company has built already.
This seems like a crazy waste of time. If you put on your tin foil hat you could bet someone with ties to the Movie industry is behind this.
Watching movies from home is much cheaper than the theater and this would be a huge loss of revenue for the industry.
I remember during a ‘halftime’ at a ‘football’ game in England that the lights dimmed while every one in England put on an electric kettle to make a pot of tea! (a long time ago) I do remember that their kettle heated up so fast because it was 240V!!! I want one of those!!!
I also remember the telly with the 12″ CRT
The tea was great! with warm scones and homemade jam and cream!
#7 Mustard:
This *is* intolerable.
A better solution is to allow energy producers to raise their prices. This is a natural consequence of increased demand. The higher prices would force *all* appliance manufacturers to make *all* of their devices more efficient.
Instead, we have caps on energy prices, and then go and increase the size of government just to force one type of device to conform to a standard.
hmm …Britain.
This is good. Now they need to put a maximum size on these things to lower the power use even more, with some max contrast & brightness rules.
And if he ever sets foot in Britain, arrest Al Gore!
#9 – JH – I don’t know about laser being all hype. I wouldn’t mind having Mitsubishi’s 65″ laser projection TV.
I wonder what the total electrical usage of the CCTV system is?
Oh fu*k it I think I’ll go have a pint.
#9
http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/2008/01/mu-ha-ha-ha-las.html
http://gizmodo.com/342045/mitsubishi-laser-tvs-colors-look-even-juicier-than-the-girls-on-the-set
http://www.mitsubishi-tv.com/product/L65A90
http://laservuetv.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Mitsubishi-L65A90-65-Inch-LaserVue-Projection/dp/B001IAAD3K
AND you can BUY THEM..
#16 – hhopper
And this girl has real boobs…