Plasma screens are getting bigger in size and energy consumption
Posted on 05/15/2007 6:33:45 AM PDT by bedolido
Governments should tax plasma screen televisions because of the large amount of energy they consume, according to a leading expert on climate change.
Professor Paul Ekins, who studies the economics of climate change, said taxing plasma screens would reflect their "greater climate change burden".
This would encourage development and take-up of more energy efficient diode screens, Professor Ekins said.
He said government could label energy hungry appliances as a first step.
Plasma televisions, which are 50% bigger than their cathode-ray tube equivalents, consume about four times more energy, according to the government-funded Energy Saving Trust.
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He needs to do something more productive like go chain himself to a power plant or something.
I walked past a wall-filled display of plasma’s at a local market and it was like walking past a blast furnace.
LCD’s seem warm too, but not nearly like that. And I really can’t tell the difference in the picture quality.
A new Tax! (which is the real reason for the global warming myth)
I'm pretty sure though, that the OLD vacuum tube type TVs used a LOT more power per square inch of viewing area than even plasma sets do.
The guy that advocates this is probably also guilty of wealth envy and this is just another way to 'get at' those nasty people that have money and won't give it to him.
I have a LCD... I am reminded of the "Everybody loves Raymond" program when all the men stood in from of the microwave covering their "family jewels" while it was on...
All I know about plasma could fit on a post-it note... I've just heard if it stops working you might as well throw it away... great picture though.
What about the poor drunk homeless people who gave their blood so we could have a plasma TV? If we tax plasma TVs out of business, where will they get their money for wine?
....Bob
Say what?
Finally, I stupid tax on something I would never buy! It’s nice to know that there are other things that can be taxed besides cigarettes.
Professor Paul Ekins, who studies the economics of climate change......obviously doesn't deserve to be carried on the backs of people who work for a living.
Interesting. When I look at groups of these TV’s in the stores, I see a grittiness and pixellation in LCD pictures that I don’t see with plasma. Maybe it’s the resolution of the source material.
I’ll give up my Plasma’s, when they pry my cold dead fingers off the remote.
My 50 inch Plasma weighs 45 lbs, the 50 inch Sony Wega LCD weighed twice that much. My 32 inch Sanyo plasma weighs less than 30.
This is in Britain where they already pay a TV tax whether you have one or not. So the Plasma owners would get doubly screwed.
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