A CRT monitor takes 50-150W (say 100W). A FPD monitor is <25W.
Assume a 80W saving, and a 12hour on-cycle/day, and that's a saving of
around 1kW per day, and 250+ kW per working year. How much does a
kW cost in the US ? Assuming it's no less than 12c, then this is
a saving of $30 per year.
However, the saving is much more significant in most real situations,
where the actual running cost is not just how much power the display
consumes, but also how much power is consumed by the air-conditioning
needed to remove the heat that the monitor creates. This could
easily double the numbers.
The flat panel CRT-replacement market will begin to explode within
the next 3 years, and there will be a lot of these kind of arguments
used to justify the high initial costs - power, user fatigue, desk
space, etc.,
CHPS are trying to position some of their technology to make it useful
to this market - TMED (the DSP technique to enhance the quality of
passive FPDs), PanelLink (working with SSI to provide the means for
connecting digital computer images to remote flat panels), etc.
It is my hope that their strong relationship with the flat panel
vendors will allow them to succeed in this respect, in which case
there should be some new and significant revenue streams to come. |
