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

In article <put242ltisb7a9ti4723v5qkdmv88b4q55@xxxxxxx>, Hugo Nebula
<abuse@localhost.?> writes

I don't think I'm unusual, and I certainly like my house to be warm.
If you need your heating on 24/7 to keep your house at 21°, you need
to look at insulating it a bit better, and the 6 Watts from your TV
won't make a dent in your heating needs.

My point, which you've overlooked, is that the amount of useful gain
from appliances left on standby is significantly less than half the
energy used (even ignoring the production losses), and is anything but
carbon neutral.

But there's the nub of the argument. If you can't detect the 6 watts
from your TV on standby, and it doesn't alter the amount of heating you
require even in the room where it actually sits, it's hardly
contributing to global warming either.

The truth is, these amounts are so pitifully small, they don't make the
slightest difference. If we wish to reduce the amount of carbon
emissions, it has to be done on a massive global scale, and that will
require international agreement on measures that really, really hurt.
Like permanently grounding all aircraft, halting progress in China and
India, returning America to 1800, and forbidding personal transport.

I don't see that happening in my lifetime.

And it won't be brought about by unplugging your TV before going to bed
either.

--
Norman Wells
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