Re: And she's gone..
- From: TimC <tconnors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:04:16 +1000
On 2007-09-12, Zebee Johnstone (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
In alt.sysadmin.recovery on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:46:07 -0500
Kevin <kevin_at@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've pondered using a CRT in the winter (us.wi) for the heat it throws off
and an LCD in the summer.
It'd be much more efficient heating your house with a heat pump or
gas, than with the extra electricity generated heat output of a CRT
over an LCD.
However, you don't buy LCDs for their electricity cost savings -- you
need them to be on 24/7 for 5 years before they recover the extra cost
it takes to buy them (an assumption of no thermostat controlled air
conditioning here, so if you have summer all year around in your
climes, drop that by a factor of 2.5). This suggests to me that they
would also take 5 years of continuous running (2 years of continuous
summer) to recover the extra energy costs required currently, to make
them. And I don't see the energy costs going down, given they are
already produced in massive quantities. And then you require the LCD
to actually last that long, which I will not be convinced is the case
for el-cheapo consumer grade LCDs, for another few years.
advisable if you have cats. Apparently they get annoyed when CRTs are
replaced by flatscreens.
We'll see. I had two Sun 21" (Sonys), and one has flickered
occasionally ever since I got it ($10, 5 years ago, IIRC. The VGA
adaptor cost 3 times more than the monitor. Fixed freq,
precursor-to-ebay guy couldn't offload it in that stone age. Just
wack a capacitor across the green and sync, fix the modelines, and
Bob's yer aunty), and varies in blurriness, and occasionally darkens.
I thought it was the cat fur that works its way into vents and across
the HT. Guess which one it was that spontaneously died, with the
obvious components (bridge, fuse, AC side swithmode controller) still
performing their job as designed? Not the one that I would have
minded losing. It can be consigned to the spare pile and the once I
have the 22" widescreen doing its job, with the other Sun 21"
(Hitachi, not fixed freq, quite nice) moved across to the current
Sony's position. However, the 22" didn't like being driven by the old
laptop at a size that I would have thought it'd have no trouble
fitting on the screen, so I'm a little worried my plan isn't going to
work.
--
TimC
So there you have it, supplicant. The Europeans aren't morally superior
to you [USAnians] at all. Just intellectually. -- The Internet Oracle
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