Samsung, Others to Pay Out $553 Million Over LCD Price-Fixing

Wall Street Journal Online ^ | 12/27/2011 | Joan E. Solsman

[GreenAccord]

Sharp Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. and five other makers of liquid crystal displays agreed to an over $550 million settlement with several U.S. states involving allegations of price-fixing.

It is the latest development in a large antitrust investigation into makers of LCD display panels, which are used in computer monitors and notebooks, ...

[Gene Eric]

Thanks for the ping, LVD.

[FreedomPoster]

You’ve got the cooling efficiency inverted. It’s more like the cost to run the device, plus 1/3 again in increased air-conditioning costs. Maybe less if you have modern high-efficiency a/c.

[Atlas Sneezed]

If AC is 75% efficient, I’m impressed.

[FreedomPoster]

You need to understand the definition of EER, the energy efficiency ratio, which is how many BTU’s of heat are removed per watt-hour of energy consumed.

Your original statement implied that it took three units of electrical energy to remove one unit of heat (from the electrical energy used by the TV).

An air conditioning system sold today has a minimum SEER of 13. Lets assume a big plasma TV used 1kW, just to have a round number to work with. The electrical energy used becomes 3413 BTU/h of heat that must be removed by the A/C. Doing the math,

3413 BTU/h / 13 BTU/h-W = 262 W, or only about 1/4th of the electrical energy used for the TV to remove the heat from the space via the A/C. Thus the total cost per hour in summer to run that TV would be 1.262 kW x cost / kWh.