[Stoves] Break Even Ecological Footprint

[Josh Kearns]

Interesting short article about the energy footprint of information
communications technologies:

http://grist.org/news/your-iphone-uses-more-electricity-than-your-fridge/

some highlights:

"The average iPhone requires more power per year than the average
refrigerator..."

"...it takes more electricity to stream a high-definition movie over a
wireless network than it would have taken to manufacture and ship a DVD of
that same movie."



On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Erin Rasmussen <erin at trmiles.com> wrote:

> Ok, I'll reword - we do the best we can, and we use a hosting provider
> that buys wind power in excess of their consumption of that power. I know
> that you buy wind power you just end up subsidizing some wind production
> and power, not actually getting wind generated power at your facility.
> Yes, I understand about environmental costs of manufacturing and digital
> technology, and that's part of why we encourage smaller, and more efficient
> messages. Someone shouldn't need the latest technology or a fast connection
> (and the associated cost in energy and peripherals) to be able to get
> valuable information about cooking stoves.  Please keep your messages
> small, so that we can keep getting the word out to more remote communities.
> ****
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>
> Erin ****
>
> erin at trmiles.com  ****
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Josh Kearns
PhD Candidate, Environmental Engineering
University of Colorado-Boulder
Visiting Researcher, North Carolina State University

Director of Science
Aqueous Solutions
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