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The Next Victim to the Green Movement – The Plasma Flat Screen

Posted by Duane Lester on Jan 12th, 2009 • Clicks

The green movement.

You know, if these folks didn’t have so much influence over the current Congress and upcoming Executive branch, they would be a laughing stock. But because these eco-Marxists have the ears of Democrat leaders, they are in your face every day.

Now, these nit-wit tree-huggers say that Brits can’t watch television however they want to watch it. No, no, no. They will waste energy watching it on a big screen, so those will have to go:

The boom in flatscreen TVs, partly spurred by the digital changeover, is helping to fuel the increase, as is the growing size of the screens. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said last week: "In the past five years we have seen the main television in a household change from typically being a 24in to 32in CRT television to being a much larger flatscreen television, with screen sizes of between 32 and 42 inches becoming more and more common. Not surprisingly, this has seen the energy used by the main television in the house increase."

Different makes and models of television vary in their use of power, but a 42in plasma television may use some 822 kilowatt hours a year, compared to 350kWh by an LCD flat screen of the same size. A 32in CRT, the biggest available, would use 322kWh.

Power consumption goes up as the screens increase in size, so the trust says that a big plasma model could use four times as much electricity and be responsible for the emission of four times as much carbon dioxide as the biggest CRT; they now account for twice as much as a fridge-freezer.

So first, the government decided to switch from analog to digital. Then, when you get your digital television, they tell you it’s not green enough and you’ll have to get a new one. Let’s think about that for a second.

How much carbon dioxide is produced when a new LCD is made? I mean, there’s wiring, so there must be some mining involved, not to mention getting the raw material into a finished product. The plastic case is made of oil, so there is drilling and transport, refining and transport, manufacturing and transport, purchasing and transport. And then the thing is still going to be pulling juice from the outlet, unless it’s a solar television.

Is it really better to produce all the carbon just for a new television? Has anyone looked a the carbon footprint of television manufacturing?

This is really quite infuriating, isn’t it? You know this is coming to America. Count on it.

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