For all our talk on energy conservation and "green" this and that, its interesting to note that those cable TV boxes and DVRs consume in the aggregate more power nationwide than all the annual power consumption for the state or Maryland.
So while you can get free money from Washington for wind mills and solar panels on your roof, no one thinks twice about having umpteen flat screen TVs with cable boxes always on.
But I leave the TV on for the cat, so I am not one to talk.
Atop TV Sets, Cable Boxes and DVRs Drain Power - NYTimes.com
3 comments:
I'm glad you pointed this out... it goes to show you that instead of dishing out subsidies for "designer power sources", we should spend more time and money on ways to use less energy instead of expensive, inefficient ways to make more...
I doubt it would take much to figure out how to make the set top boxes use less energy...
Well what do we do? Not watch or do anything? Go back to covered wagons and plowing with horses? Forget that our fav. show is on? Just hang out down by the barn and talk about the good old days....When if you wanted to...You could leave the tv on all night? I payed for the electric energy...so I do as I want with it.
As long as I can afford the electric bill it's nobody's businees how I use it. The greenie-weenie freaks can bite my southern expsoure. Nobody bothers to mention that using less electricity won't cut your bill anyway. The less you use the higher your rate per kilowatt hour. Isn't the whole idea of working hard to be able to live in relative comfort compared to our ancestors? Just exactly when the he!! did it become unfashonable to be successful?
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