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Posted by Jan Panteltje on 01/31/07 15:17
On a sunny day (Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:02:46 -0500) it happened Rick Merrill
<rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote in
<sq-dnRM_vOwAMl3YnZ2dnUVZ_sSdnZ2d@comcast.com>:
>LCDs also use less power AND they do not have to use power even while
>they are OFF -
LCD on standby uses as much power as anything else.. its all electronics.
It is not true 'LCD uses less power', yes the heater.. but the backlight makes up
for that :-)
>if you add up all the power used in the USA while the
>units are OFF (power for keeping the CRT filament warm, power for
>running the remote control sensor) they use about 5% of the total
>electricity produced! (i.e. about the power of the Grand Coulee dam)
Well, this is generally true for computers.
As you will be aware Billy Gates just came with Vista, and it needs 'better hardware'
(read hardware that consumes more power), so Billy The Gates is alone responsible for
having to build 11 nuclear plants just to power Vista!!!!!
>How's that for changing the subject:-)
Yea, that is a fun change of subject :-)
LOL
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