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Fuzzy Logic Sharp’s solar powered LCD TV is the way of the future!
Fuzzy Logic Sharp’s solar powered LCD TV is the way of the future! | Sharp’s solar powered LCD TV is the way of the future! |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Monday, 07 July 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 Fourth is Sharp’s “Solar LED module”, which is an “ecological outdoor lighting for the 21st century” solution.Fifth is Sharp’s new 65-inch Next-Generation Prototype LCD TV. This TV has an annual energy consumption of 200 kWh/year, which Sharp says is “about half that of conventional LCD TVs.” Despite being low powered, it has a contrast ratio of 100,000:1 for “unparalleled image quality”, although TV manufacturers always say these kinds of things. In addition, the screen is “just 20 mm thick at the thinnest part (display section)” and as you’d expect has stylish design. We really need to see more work done in the realm of solar technology. These panels should be on every roof in the world, micro-generating power for every home and office and selling excess power into the grid. City-wide power failures would become a thing of the past, as the loss of grid power means your own internal battery systems kick in and are charged during the day. Already there are people who have such setups around the world effectively giving them free electricity, with the backup of the grid if ever needed. Barring any major global catastrophe these alternate energy advances will continue rocketing along over the next few years, eventually supplanting the need for major electricity generation. It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen, and as the technology advances will, in theory, dramatically reducing the “carbon emissions” everyone is so worried about right now, which is a great thing whether the “global warming crisis” is real or imagined. It’s a shame we didn’t truly accelerate solar tech and other alternate energies in the 1970s during the first energy shock, but better late than never I say. Bring it on!
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