Gadget boom is a doom for energy industry
By Cheryl | July 4, 2007
Decorating their living place with gadget accessories viz. flat-screen televisions, computers, ipods, iphones or other sundry gadgets makes one feel great but not at the cost of electricity-crisis. Yes, a survey done by an energy conservation body, Energy Saving Trust (EST) said that the usage of hi-tech gadgets consume nearly half of a typical household’s total electricity by 2020.
The study says that the latest models launched today are thirstier than the earlier ones. The worst part is the non-existence of the switch button, which is the favorable factor for consumers inviting all eyeballs. The trust claims that households can save 37 pounds a year on their energy charts by switching off the devices.
A comparison says that today 60% of households carries personal computer against 3% in 1982.
And the same goes for printer, which has been handpicked by gadget freaks and is shooting up to 58% from 0.7%. The trend is to replace the old TV sets with the new ones with large screens. The report says that by 2020, 1.4% of the domestic electricity would be consumed by televisions.
Not only this, a cut in the energy will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which is a worthy step to peep into climate change
Topics: Computer, Gadget, ipod, laptop
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