Reply #13: Plasma TV's cause nuclear plants.

[NNadir]

Over in bizarro land, the unit of ecocrisisness is the "nuclear plant" which can be caused by plasma TV's.

Plasma TV's will cause "2 nuclear plants" worth of ecocrisis.

I suppose this crisisness could be eliminated by building two coal plants or a brazillion solar roofs (where's Arnie-worship when you need it), but there you have it.

Plasma screens threaten eco-crisis



The energy demands of Britain's obsession with flat televisions could require two nuclear plants

David Smith and Juliette Jowit
Sunday August 13, 2006
The Observer


Our insatiable appetite for the big picture is threatening the planet. A scientist has warned that if half of British homes buy a plasma-screen TV, two nuclear power stations would have to be built to meet the extra energy demand.

Britons were buying flat-screen TVs every 15 seconds from Currys and its online sister company Dixons during the build-up to the World Cup, and subsequent price reductions have ensured they remain hugely popular.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,,1843726,00.html

How is it, one wonders, that the Guardian believes that the only way to generate electricity is with nuclear plants?