$1.5 million fine. Each song kills a Polar Bear. Hopefully a Grizzly bear too.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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Time to TAX Indonesia, they hit us with an SO2 cloud!
I can’t believe how brainwashed these kids are.
“The energy used by downloads is around 7kWh per megabyte (the average album will be in the region of 100MB).”
Hmm… So how much energy does it take to run a GCM?
On a super computer no less.
How about the kids just get rid of all their cell phones?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwZoYV9B1BM
Hell, there’s a carbon penalty just for living. But that’s just the point … you’re guilty just for being. Once those littly tyrants get you to accept that you’re guily by nature, they’ll have you putting on your own slave collar.
7 kWh per megabyte?? Haha – that’s insane!! One measly megabyte of download is supposed to drain twice as much energy as our house (including several computers, washing mashine, etc. etc., and including pure electric heating in winter months) use in an hour?? A quick guesstimate (and I have a server farm next to my door here at work and know what it consumes and provides) is that 7Wh per megabyte is more likely to be true, unless you’re using 30 year old servers, of course.
…in fact, 700Wh (for 100MB of download) is probably about the same as the power consumption of a small electric car for 2 miles, so I guess the Guardian journalist just mixed up kWh with Wh.
Those are Kill-a-Watt hours, not Kilowatt hours. You know the ones running around in black tights and ski masks trying to be supercool in their parody of a Goth outfit.
Hehe
Or the k is simply for klueless?
She equates the download of a 100Mb album to ” making tea for 12″. This would mean boiling about 6 pints of water ( be generous, it’s cold outside – 1/2 pint mug each) – I calculate this would take 6 x 209 kJ or around 0.348kWh.
My sceptical eye spots a slight discrepancy in her figures.
She claims that downloading a 100Mb album consumes 700kWh, and that this is MORE efficient than manufacturing a CD. At a cost of 10p (£0.10) per kWh this would mean the energy cost of producing a CD would be at LEAST £70.00 ( around $113). I must cancel my broadband subscription and rush out and buy a load of CDs – they’re CHEAP!
From her figures, I also estimate that 10m surfers downloading around 10Mb (not a lot) in a casual 60 min. session would have been responsible for 700MW of power consumption (excluding their own PCs) – the output of a medium-sized power station. The woman needs a reality check. I’ll send her a book token for “Simple Arithmetic for Greenies”. Readers here should have a quick look (I couldn’t stomach more than three) of her other offerings on the Grauniad.
Update: The Guardian article has been amended – by a factor of 1024 no less:
The point is that there is a carbon penalty for downloading, despite the physical lack of a CD. The energy used by downloads is around 7kWh per gigabyte (the average album will be in the region of 100MB). But downloading is still 40-80% more carbon efficient than buying a CD.