Plasma TV's are off limits in Aussie Land
Apparently, plasma TV's are "the major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions from households."

MOST current plasma television sets would be banned from sale in Australia within a year under onerous mandatory energy requirements recommended in a report commissioned by the Federal Government.

The consulting firm Digital CEnergy, which prepared the report for the Government's Australian Greenhouse Office, also recommends a second tier of even tougher restrictions that would then ban almost all current LCD models from the market in April 2011.

The report was commissioned in response to a fact sheet released this year by the Government's Equipment Energy Efficiency Committee, which said television power consumption was increasing at an alarming rate as consumers upgraded from low-power cathode-ray TVs to energy-guzzling plasma and LCD behemoths.

It found TVs were fast overtaking fridges, heaters and air-conditioners as the major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions from households.

Read all about it here, courtesy of theage.com.au.com

Eric