While it was a well written and reasoned article, he forgets that he spends a lot of time and money keeping the rest of his house low on the power usage. Most Americans still use their 2 decade old appliances and incandescent bulbs. Assuming that the average household's appliances are twice as power hungry that brings 30% towards TV and PC down below 18% of the bill. But I wouldn't be surprised if if most people's appliances are much more thirsty than that.
And what about an electric range?
while vhs is certainly on the decline, many families still have a huge catalog of vhs tapes, and many movies are still not yet available on dvd. no vhs is not the format of choice, it is still reasonably usable, and it offers great ease (not to mention price) when it comes to recording options (kinda like cassette tapes maybe?)
sure, someday they will be pretty much out of use, but even now, i know alot of households that have cassette players in their home stereos, my own included. heck one of my friends still makes mix tapes on a regular basis. not until the dvr is commonplace will i see vhs as completely dead. (how else is ma supposed to tape her soaps?)
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While it was a well written and reasoned article, he forgets that he spends a lot of time and money keeping the rest of his house low on the power usage. Most Americans still use their 2 decade old appliances and incandescent bulbs. Assuming that the average household's appliances are twice as power hungry that brings 30% towards TV and PC down below 18% of the bill. But I wouldn't be surprised if if most people's appliances are much more thirsty than that. And what about an electric range?
while vhs is certainly on the decline, many families still have a huge catalog of vhs tapes, and many movies are still not yet available on dvd. no vhs is not the format of choice, it is still reasonably usable, and it offers great ease (not to mention price) when it comes to recording options (kinda like cassette tapes maybe?) sure, someday they will be pretty much out of use, but even now, i know alot of households that have cassette players in their home stereos, my own included. heck one of my friends still makes mix tapes on a regular basis. not until the dvr is commonplace will i see vhs as completely dead. (how else is ma supposed to tape her soaps?)
i'm not saying the games are old, just the article.
this might have been interesting if i hadn't read this, oh i dunno, 6 or 7 years ago when this article was published.