MOST current plasma TV models would be banned from sale in Australia as early as October next year under onerous mandatory energy requirements recommended in a report commissioned by the Federal Government.
The consulting firm Digital CEnergy, which prepared the report for the Government's Australian Greenhouse Office, also recommends a second tier of even tougher restrictions that would then ban almost all current LCD models from the market in April 2011.
The report was commissioned in response to a fact sheet released earlier this year by the Government's Equipment Energy Efficiency Committee that said TV power consumption was increasing at an alarming rate as consumers upgraded from low-power cathode-ray TVs to energy-guzzling plasma and LCD behemoths.
It found TVs were fast overtaking fridges, heaters and air-conditioners as the major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions from households.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
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I have started my very own TV related energy saving program, every time someone mentions global warming on TV I turn the set off. I urge everyone to follow my lead.
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