Re: Bollocks: Call to scrap TV standby buttons to help environment

From: Cardinal Chunder <cchunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:38:52 +0100

Heracles Pollux wrote:

http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=567712006

What a load of drivel!

"A television left on standby uses 90 per cent of its normal energy. Televisions left on standby waste £8 million in Scotland and £88 million across the UK every year. "

You can tell this was written by some greeny-P.R. loony.

Lacks science. Lacks green-credentials. Lacks common sense.

Aside from the inaccurate reporting, what's wrong with the idea of TVs with no standby? Would it kill the electronics industry to find out a way to implement a television on / off switch that was battery powered?

When you think of the total waste of energy from devices in standby, it is a wonder that nothing has been done sooner.
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