Planning to buy the new plasma TV to adorn your living room? Give few minutes to read this post before you decide.
Come next year and Australia would see banning of Plasma Television sets all across.
The reason: A report commissioned by the Government’s Australian Greenhouse Office, prepared by the consulting firm Digital CEnergy claims that a large part of the population was buying Plasma screens therefore the energy consumption had increased many folds as compared to low power cathode ray TVs.
It had overtaken fridge, heating and air conditioning as major contributor to green house emissions from households.
In response to the fact sheet released by the Government’s Equipment Energy Efficiency Committee early this year the 166 page report also recommends banning of all the LCD screens present in the market by 2011.
Although a star based energy rating scheme has been in practice since 1992 on almost all consumer whitegoods; it lets the consumer think about the energy consumption before buying a particular product. Star rating stickers being recommended on TV sets as well would encourage even the manufacturers to develop more energy-efficient TVs.
Digital CEnergy recommends that TV sets would be discarded from the market if they failed to achieve even a single star. The consulting firm has even stricter plans. A tightening of system would ensure that getting even a single star would become difficult by 2011.
Out of the 116 TV models tested , all the LCD sets managed at least one star but 16 out of 20 Plasma models would be dropped by October next year. Which models have faced death knell is not clear.
In a telephonic survey of 1400 Australian adults, nearly 85% have responded positively to the Star rating system, but the manufacturers are afraid, they’d get little time to respond
A similar ban is being planned in UK where the government has proposed o put a cap on the electrical appliances and those exceeding limits could be banned from sale in the UK.
As a consumer, the amount of energy that a particular electrical appliance uses might not make a lot of difference to us. But overall if we be a little conscious of the choices we make, we can save a lot of energy which would otherwise go waste in using them or keeping them on standby.
Via: Brisbane Times
