On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:07 PM, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Tuesday 07 Oct 2008 13:59, Amit Joshi wrote:
LCDs are very commonplace in India, so definitely some amount of power will be saved. These days, every bit helps. :)
Typical hare brained costing. Energy savings have to be measured end to end to have any impact. while most schemes might save you some money in recurring energy costs, these saving methods are shifting the "saved" amount to some other place and you evantually wind up paying more and polluting more. The real requirement is consume less and consume only what can be replenished. But that involves a lot of hardship, so lets use black backgrouds and sms lingo...
Hi, You removed the "I don't think" part while trimming the contents of my post. What I said was "I don't think LCDs are very commonplace in India..." takes quite a different meaning. I think it is safe to say that the number of people buying LCDs is growing. Only when somebody is interested in buying a new computer do they think of buying a LCD. Still some people end up buying CRTs because they are cheaper. Majority of the people are not interested in discarding their old working CRT monitor to buy a LCD one following the thumb rule - If it ain't broke, don't fix it. So the number of CRTs present is diminishing at a slower rate. Most of the people in India still use CRTs. So the amount of power consumed by all the computers would be lessened as a whole. Looking at the bigger picture, "measurable" amount of power will definitely be saved.