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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, Interesting) by sjames on Monday February 18 2019, @07:26PM
Emit vastly more carbon regulating an extremely minor contributor than streaming ever could.
Consider all those computers tracking all that streaming, all those forms filled out in triplicate claiming educational exemptions. All those investigators auditing the educational claims and all the paperwork that generates. Even if everyone involved telecommutes, they'll emit more carbon than streaming audio does. Then someone (probably a few someones) will have to go to court in person with all that driving internal combustion vehicles.
Even banks eventually figured out that burning $1000 in overtime looking for the missing dime is a losing proposition.
On the bright side, we will all get to laugh at the wild claims of detector vans that can not only sniff out a HiFi stereo but determine that it is streaming audio rather than playing a CD.