+ Power to the Flat-Screen TVs

MSNBC posted a video regarding the increase in power consumption among the ever popular flat screen televisions, which are quickly replacing the CRT completely. So even though we may be replacing incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescents, that soft glow from the not so "small screen" may be devouring the gains. And Christopher Null from Yahoo! TECH wrote an article about the problem earlier this year:

Of course, you can't find CRTs beyond this size any more, but Philips' 47-inch LCD consumes a whopping 290 watts and its 50-inch plasma eats up a mind-bending 400 watts! If you replaced a 26-inch CRT with that 50-inch plasma, you more than tripled your power bill on that outlet.