[Wylug-discuss] CRT's

[Nick Moulsdale]

At last a spot of sanity!! (email reproduced below)

_Look I'm offering Free CRT's._ NOT a social or political statement!!

If everyone in UK drove a 4 x 4 and used a CRT it would not equate to the 2
coal fired power stations (a week) being built and used in China, or the 10
x UK carbon footprint of our US friends, never mind the enormous amount of
energy wasted waging war.

If you don't want one, fair do's. If you want one they are free if you
collect. 

I know if I was offered a free 19" or 22" screen and I had the space for it,
I'd be thrilled.

I have friends who can only afford 14" CRT's. 

TFT's are already failing and they DO consume energy, just put you hand on
the top of one. 

We got ours for space reasons, not for green reasons.

Put it into perspective, the 22" uses about the same energy as a 60W bulb.
Compare to your toaster (2000W) or Iron (2000W). What about a heater or A/C
unit?

Best Wishes to you all and if you want a CRT, email me and I'll try and
oblige :~))

Nick



N.G. Moulsdale FCA
Group Finance Director
Ebi Manufacturing Co Ltd
Sandhill House
82 Meanwood Road
Leeds LS7 2RE
United Kingdom
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*  Nick at ebi.ndo.co.uk



 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Nix [mailto:p.j.nix at leeds.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:15 PM
> To: WYLUG
> Subject: Re: [Wylug-discuss] CRT's
> 
> 
> Of the ~60 vdus in use in my dept at the university fifteen were  
> bought before 2000, the longest serving are 2 (of an original 6)   
> Apples with 17" Trinitron tube bought in 1996. Many vdus are 
> on top of their second cpu, and a  proportion their third or fourth.
> 
> Every so often the accountants tell me I should replace all 
> IT equipment every four years, I ask them if they recommend 
> this practice for office furniture and if not, why not.
> 
> In large heterogeneous organisations like universities the 
> chief carbon benefit of longevity - in software as well as 
> hardware - is indirect, it lies in the reduction of 
> administrative human activity - obtaining quotations, arguing 
> the case for expenditure in a room containing five people, 
> placing orders, signing delivery notes and passing them to 
> the goods receipters, entering information in SAP, tagging 
> equipment, installing it, removing the old, altering the 
> inventory, disposing of the old, taking paper asserting that 
> the manner of disposal of the old is correct to dept head who 
> will sign then have someone file it in a space with a carbon 
> footprint.
> 
> At least at as fast as the price ( but also I suspect the 
> average working life) of new equipment, falls the quantity of 
> human support activity and its implicit carbon footprint, rises.
> 
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