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To: No Mo Mo who wrote (7755)	4/6/2010 2:59:04 PM
From: Eric	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16955

Perhaps for every 10 compact fluorescents, there is a new big-screen plasma of LCD. Absolutely! LCD TV's are slowly getting there but it will be a few more years before they beat a good CRT TV on power consumption for equivalent screen size. LED's are nice but we have a ways to go to beat good fluorescents yet in terms of efficiency.

To: No Mo Mo who wrote (7755)	4/6/2010 10:34:14 PM
From: Archie Meeties	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16955

That is a link only to summer demand. Look at the yearly demand. eia.doe.gov <1% growth in demand since 2004, 1-2% growth in the period from 1997, and if you had the data from before then, you'd see 2-3% growth. Moreover, percapita electricity demand in the US has actually gone negative since 2004. Now this deceleration of US (and for that matter European) electricity demand growth is less striking if you look on a global scale. The generation saved by reducing our electricity growth from 2% to 1%/year is eaten for breakfast by China.