[DUG] Screen sizes :-)

[Rohit Gupta]

The Lcd process has to use more energy to produce then blowing of a 
glass tube.  It would also produce much more toxic waste in its manufacture.

As for teh going green by installing mini fluros... the biggest crock of 
all.  The same thing applies (it was actually researched for a UK 
magazine by some one there, cant find it right now).  Not only does it 
take more energy (than you save) to manufacture these, they also produce 
more toxic waste in their manufacture and then they produce more toxic 
waste on their disposal.  True they save money for the householder.... 
but they are not GREEN. Dont forget the Kyoto rubbish where we then pay 
the Chinese (and other countries producing these) more money as carbon 
tax for them to produce even more greenhouse gas than we do.  We also 
sell some of them our coal that is supposedly too ungreen for us to use.

Alister Christie wrote:
> They weigh a ton also (well, about 25kg each).  Actually a flat panel 
> is only about twice as energy efficient as a CRT.  However flat panels 
> don't give as much radiation.  However I am recycling I guess, as 
> otherwise the monitors would probably go into a land fill - I don't 
> know how much energy goes into producing a flat panel either.  There 
> is a lot to consider if you try to be green ;-).
>