More Global Warming Lies

Did you hear the reports this week that flat screen TVs are responsible for far more greenhouse gases than coal fired power stations? Sadly it was only partly true. In fact the gas mentioned in involved in all kinds of electronic devices, including solar power panels!

Here's an article from Andrew Bolt:

The Sydney Morning Herald finds another global warming scare to hype - and, revealingly, focuses on the symbol of modern affluence in this wicked consumer society:

THE rising demand for flat-screen televisions may have a greater impact on global warming than the worldu2019s largest coal-fired power stations, a leading environmental scientist has warned.

Manufacturers use a greenhouse gas called nitrogen trifluoride to make the televisions. As the sets have become more popular, annual production of the gas has risen to about 4000 tonnes.

As a driver of global warming, nitrogen trifluoride is 17,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide...

But, of course, it's a beat-up by ideologues. Physical Insights explains:

This has got nothing to do specifically with manufacturing plasma TVs, and everything to do with manufacturing semiconductor devices and materials such as polycrystalline silicon. One has to wonder what the emissions of sulfur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons and/or nitrogen trifluoride are for the manufacturing of a typical plasma TV, and how it compares to the emissions of sulfur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons and/or nitrogen trifluoride over the manufacturing of, say, one typical solar photovoltaic panel. Obviously a photovoltaic panel has got much more polycrystalline silicon in it than your TV

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