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Environmental Impact of Music Streaming?

posted by janrinok on Monday February 18 2019, @06:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the it-makes-sense dept.

takyon writes:

How streaming music could be harming the planet

Once vinyl or a CD is purchased, it can be played over and over again, the only carbon cost coming from running the record player. However, if we listen to our streamed music using a hi-fi sound system it's estimated to use 107 kilowatt hours of electricity a year, costing about £15.00 to run. A CD player uses 34.7 kilowatt hours a year and costs £5 to run.

Solution: Use a smartphone or laptop with headphones unless you are playing music for guests. Download the songs you play repeatedly.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 18 2019, @07:21PM (3 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 18 2019, @07:21PM (#803111) Homepage Journal

    Solution to what, a modern standard of living? You're free to go off-grid and use only candles you made yourself for light if you like but you're no way in hell going to tell me I'm not allowed to do legal things that I can afford to do. Take a bath, hippie.

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  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Monday February 18 2019, @07:41PM (2 children)

    by sjames (2882) on Monday February 18 2019, @07:41PM (#803125) Journal

    Make sure the candles are pure bees wax so they'll be carbon neutral! :-)

    Personally, I support efforts to reduce carbon emissions, but the parent proposal is akin to fixing a leaky sink during a 500 year flood.

    • (Score: 2) by NateMich on Tuesday February 19 2019, @03:36PM (1 child)

      by NateMich (6662) on Tuesday February 19 2019, @03:36PM (#803492)

      Make sure the candles are pure bees wax so they'll be carbon neutral! :-)

      But what about the poor bees?