“the consumer electronics market in which he specialises is yet to see as much innovation designed to cut carbon emissions and environmental impacts”

Every year, electronics manufacturers are bringing out products that can do more using less power. Ever since Intel killed the Pentium 4, they’ve been trying to reduce the power consumption of their chips while increasing performance. Performance/watt is a major consideration, particularly for mobile and server applications. If automobiles had the same gains in performance/power as computers over the past 20 years, global warming would have been solved by now.

Heck, let’s look at the iPod — the original was a hard drive based device, that was almost certainly more energy efficient than the cassette tape walkmans that it replaced. And today’s iPods are all flash based, meaning no moving parts at all, meaning even less power consumption.

TVs and computer monitors are transitioning to LED backlighting, which saves power.

There are tons of examples of increased energy efficiency in the electronics industry. The more I think about it, the more that quote makes no sense at all.