The Insatiable Power Hunger of Home Electronics

An anonymous reader writes "A Wall Street Journal columnist recently got his hand on a power meter and decided to write about his findings, the resulting article being discussed here on Slashdot. That author concluded that gadgets are getting a bad rap, and are relatively insignificant power consumers in the grand scheme of things. A rebuttal has appeared, arguing that not only are modern electronics significant power consumers already, while everything else is becoming more efficient, home electronics seem to be getting worse. This echoes the Department of Energy's assertion that 'Electricity consumption for home electronics, particularly for color TVs and computer equipment, is also forecast to grow significantly over the next two decades.' Are gadgets unfairly maligned, or getting an unearned pardon?"

Comments

Re:Inflation

[Moofie]

Well, golly. Thanks for clearing that up for us.

Re:Not the problem, but not ignorable

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

You continue to miss the point, jackass.

YOU. CAN. DO. MORE. WITH. IT. compared to 20 PCs from 19dickity2, you can do MUCH more with your hardware. BANG FOR THE BUCK.

You're more dense than the average digger, and that's saying something.