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NorthernGent -> RE: How the Ice in Your Drink is Imperiling the Planet!!! (4/20/2011 3:04:38 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Sanity
Calling all Leftists, step away from your refrigerators and give up all your icy beverages!
From far left Time Magazine:
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How the Ice in Your Drink is Imperiling the Planet
Want to save the Earth? Easy, just buy a couple of ice trays. To the long list of human inventions that are wrecking global climate—the internal combustion engine, the industrial era factory—add the automatic ice maker.
Climate modelers have long known that households are far bigger contributors to global warming than most laypeople realize. For all the blame tailpipe emissions take for escalating temperatures, homes and office buildings are actually the single largest contributor to greenhouse gasses. One key reason is the 100-plus million refrigerators in America's 111 million households. According to the Department of Energy, the standard fridge sucks up about 8% of the electricity used by all homes—a pretty big share given the dozens of big and small appliances and electronics that are also drawing juice.
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That appeal to reason, NIST officials hope, will be enough. But just in case it isn't, the Department of Energy has announced that it intends to add 84 kilowatt hours to the efficiency rating of every refrigerator equipped with an icemaker. Consumers will feel that fact in the wallet—and if manufacturers don't scramble to improve their numbers, they soon will too.
Read more: http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/04/14/how-the-ice-in-your-drink-is-imperiling-the-planet/#ixzz1K4TRuyDa
After that, we'll be requiring all you Global Warming faithful to turn off your TVs, any music playing device you may have, and most importantly youll need to shut off your death-to-the-planet computers and monitors. [sm=pc.gif]
Have you any idea how much energy is required to properly cool a typical server room? [sm=river.gif]
Unilever has concluded that 70% of its carbon footprint is a result of consumer use. Did you know that Coca Cola has set a target of replenishing all of the water used in its production process?
The environmental/energy agenda is no longer simply a social concern, it is hard nosed business. Due to the world's population growth and increasing consumption per head, the business community has realised that resources will become increasingly more expensive and in some cases unobtainable.
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