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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, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Monday February 18 2019, @08:13PM (8 children)
Give up music on a serious music system? Oh hell no.
However: let's just turn out all the lights. ALL of them. You want light? Skylights, windows, or go outdoors. Just think of the carbon footprint reduction!!!
And hey... no more heating, either. Wear warm clothes when necessary, all you special butterflies. Except for a box the reverse of a refrigerator where you can keep your water unmelted. No, heck with that, melt it in your mouth! HUGE savings! And of course, no AC. Anywhere. No such thing as "too hot." Get a white robe. Oh yeah, NOW we're saving!
Monitors and phone displays must all be reflective LCD. They'll be slow, of course, so no more action games or animation, but hey, the SAVINGS! And... yeah, TV's too. Motion blur FTW.
Cows gotta go too. They fart too much.
Clearly, we're wallowing in unnecessary luxury. How else can I help? Discuss and Implement*.
* You go first. I'll observe.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday February 18 2019, @09:04PM (7 children)
https://www.energy.gov/eere/ssl/about-solid-state-lighting-program [energy.gov]
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(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Monday February 18 2019, @09:26PM (6 children)
Nope. That's just profligate waste. No lights. Anywhere.* Unless it's carbon-neutral bioluminescence.
* Still you first.
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The pessimist: the glass is half full
The optimist: the glass is half empty
The engineer: the glass is twice as big as it needs to be
The scientist: the glass is full; 50% water and 50% air.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @10:05PM (5 children)
The cynic: I have the wrong size glass.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @10:30PM (3 children)
The Buddhist: There is no glass.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 19 2019, @12:31AM (1 child)
The Surrealist: How many glasses does it take to change a light bulb?
(Score: 3, Funny) by fyngyrz on Tuesday February 19 2019, @12:44AM
Depends on:
...and it's worth checking your insurance before trying. Just saying.
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Dear life: When I said "This can't get any worse",
it wasn't a freaking challenge
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Tuesday February 19 2019, @12:31AM
will add :)
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Tuesday February 19 2019, @12:17AM
will add, slightly modified :)