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The environment has a new enemy: Television. In this Christian Science Monitor article, big-screen and High-Definition TVs are consuming more power than ever, and the percentage of household power devoted to television is on the rise:

Already, televisions account for about 4 percent of annual residential electricity use in the United States – enough to power all of the homes in the state of New York for a year, according to a new NRDC study. [...] Throw in a DVD and VCR player, a pair of high-definition set-top boxes, and other household TVs, and the total TV-related energy use for the home rises to about 10 percent, the NRDC estimates.

As TVs grow, so do electric bills

The shocker for me was the finding that a 32 inch Hi-Def LCD consumed almost twice as much juice as a 34 inch standard tube. Suddenly the 32-inch behemoth in my living room is ‘green’.

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