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To: Libbyt who wrote (5816)	3/24/2001 6:42:02 PM
From: Si_Detective	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57684

Help to alleviate power crisis in Cal? Replace your CRT with a FPD, and it'll sure benefit me :))), a long time shareholder in Genesis Microchip, FPD IC company. A post taken from Yahoo GNSS board: (just like to toast some investment idea, no offence everyone.) A few people have recently posted the concept of using FPDs to help solve the energy crisis in California. This is an idea that may be gaining momentum. I listened to a segment on the news tonight, which discussed this, and the idea goes like this: FPDs use about one third of the electricity that CRT monitors do. That's 35 Watts versus 100 Watts. FPDs cost two to three times CRTs. If half of the monitors in California were changed to FPDs we would reduce our power needs by FOUR new power stations. The money saved on the power stations could be used to provide a state-funded rebate on the purchase of FPDs. This is just like the rebate you get when you buy a fridge or washing machine. Even if the FPDs were still more expensive than CRTs the energy savings would make up the difference in a few years. Without the rebate it would take 5 years to absorb the cost difference. Now this is a really neat idea and if it takes off then watch out above. That's the idea but there is a possible downside and maybe not. If everyone becomes really energy conscious and buys FPDs then this will impact CRT sales and maybe affect the transition to digital. Then again the transition to digital CRTs does save some power so the CRT manufacturers may accelerate their transition to digital to stave off sales lost to FPDs. Mike