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Plasma TV's > Electric Cars...In Drawing Power from the Grid

2008_07_25 plug in tv car.jpgPlasma TV's draw more power from the grid than a plug in electric vehicle? First, flat screens are contributing to the production of greenhouse gases and now this?

 
 
"Plasma TVs, industry officials say, consume about four times the electricity as recharging a plug-in hybrid. Yet utilities have managed to cope with the increased loads as thousands of new televisions came on line."

Well, the good news is that there is no reason that plug in electric vehicles can't become the norm now. How great would it be to see a fleet of electric cars on the road, especially if cars like the Tesla roadster are among those choices and gradually become more affordable.

-via Treehuger

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Flat Panel TVs are using up all our elements too!

posted by kvh on July 26th 2008 at 5:22am
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My husband and I recently got a new TV, and the fact that plasmas use so much more energy than LCDs was one of the things that tipped us towards LCD.

posted by mandarinmarie on July 27th 2008 at 11:30am
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