In a report Wednesday, the Paris-based International Energy Agency estimates new electronic gadgets will triple their energy consumption by 2030 to 1,700 terawatt hours, the equivalent of today's home electricity consumption of the United States and Japan combined.Ummm, if environmentalists are concerned about the increased electrical power needed to charge our iPods in the future, they're gonna go freakin' ape-shit when we start plugging in all the electric cars they're gonna make us drive.
The world would have to build around 200 new nuclear power plants just to power all the TVs, iPods, PCs and other home electronics expected to be plugged in by 2030, when the global electric bill to power them will rise to $200 billion a year, the IEA said.
It's ironic that these environmentalists are the same environmentalists who don't want us to build any more power-generating plants. After all, the polar bears need a place to live, too.
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