Audio s impact on enviroment

If you have big powerful amps that run hot, can't you just turn down the heat and curl up around the system and enjoy the music? I thought that engineers of good equipment would use high quality parts that are efficient. Doesn't unnecessary electricity cause RF problems? Wouldn't the less expensive "consumer" electronics that have 300 watts per channel be more inefficient? I know I'm not going to worry about leaving my 60 watt amp on overnight after my neighbour has been watching a DVD on a system that cost the same as my amp.

I live in an 40% solar heated home in northern New England. I use less than 350 kilowatt hrs. electricity per month. I drive a Volvo wagon instead of an suv because it gets 26 mpg. I also have a V8 pick-up because I sometimes tow a large trailer, but I use the car when I can. I leave my 200 watt amp on 24/7. Being energy conscious does not mean you need to give up anything. You need to make conscious desisions about your own energy use.

Zero population growth for Americans makes about as much sense as unilateral disarmament once did and for the same reasons. How many planned parenthood clinics do you think there are in Chiapas, or Dhaka or Kamina? What if the Salk's hadn't wanted any "brats"?
If driving a Volvo (there's a cliche) or turning off your stereo assuages your guilt about having more than others, that's fine, but it's pissing in the ocean. What really counts is not cursing the price increases at the gas station when you pass by and you Californians not voting for propositions that artificially hold down energy costs, curtailing production and putting you in the fix you're currently in. We're all hooked on cheap energy. We won't support fiscal policy that endangers it and we fought a war over it as recently as 1990. Kuwait wasn't about oil, it was about cheap oil.
I drive a 4 cylinder, curse when I see gas go up 25 cents and when I visit home I'm incensed to see a brown cloud above the town which used to have the bluest skies in America. Mea culpa.
A democracy almost by definition is incapable of making unselfish choices until the crunch comes, but the alternative, totalitarianism, is anathema, at least to me. Who will cast the first vote against socialised medicine, Medicare, Federal control of education and the myriad other social programs that have indebted us to the point where additional fiscal restraint on our consumption habits is impossible. Will you? And don't rejoin with the Defense budget nonsense; there's 350 million of us and 4 billion of them.

Kitch29, You didn't tell us if you leave your amp on or off.

imho, the industrial revolution dehumanizes mankind. so i'm using as much energy as i can as fast as i can. in the usa at least, acquiring, expending and enjoying scarce resources is the definition of success. there is no downside. decrease the surface population? i'm all for it! amps on for me!