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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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday February 18 2019, @07:52PM (3 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday February 18 2019, @07:52PM (#803135)

    Hookers, dealers, mules and growers all have to make a living, too... put them out of their present line of work and they'll become a burden on society's welfare systems. /s

    Another thing that has to be taken into account on the physical media side of the spreadsheet is all the overproduced product, those bins full of Foreigner 4 LPs, the landfill full of Atari ET games...

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 18 2019, @07:55PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 18 2019, @07:55PM (#803139) Homepage Journal

    Shit, I remember playing that. It kinda sucked compared to Adventure but at least you didn't get a blister in the palm of your hand like with Track and Field.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by krishnoid on Monday February 18 2019, @08:55PM (1 child)

    by krishnoid (1156) on Monday February 18 2019, @08:55PM (#803174)

    Hookers, dealers, mules and growers all have to make a living, too... put them out of their present line of work and they'll become a burden on society's welfare systems. /s

    Probably by joining pharmaceutical companies. Wait, maybe you were *talking* about the pharmaceutical companies?

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday February 19 2019, @03:15AM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday February 19 2019, @03:15AM (#803320)

      Did you catch the story about the pharma rep doing lap dances to move opioids? Should be able to Google search for it, it wasn't a The Onion story.

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