Terminating TVs?
22 Nov 2009 by Paul Northup
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has praised his State’s legislature for passing new regulations that will require manufacturers of LCD and plasma televisions to meet progressively stricter energy guidelines, starting in 2011.
The average plasma screen TV uses more than three times the power as an old-style, bulky cathode ray tube TV. And as televisions account for about 10 per cent of a home’s electricity use, it is estimated that people will use 8 per cent more electricity a year as they switch to these larger, flatscreen televisions.
The television industry in the States was understandably opposed the new regulations but environmental groups reckon the new rules could save the State of California a whopping 1 billion dollars a year.
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Southampton, GB , 29 Nov 2009
More details are found here http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575555,00.html and here http://www.greenlodgingnews.com/content.aspx?id=4116.