Posted by Rick Merrill on 02/01/07 16:13

Jan Panteltje wrote:
> 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..

LCD display if the computer is on sleep/hibernate/standby uses as much
power, BUT an LCD display whose power is "Off" at the switch, does nOT
use as much power as a CRT that's plugged in but in "off" mode. Are we
speaking the same terms?-)



> 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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