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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 Hartree on Monday February 18 2019, @08:40PM (3 children)

    by Hartree (195) on Monday February 18 2019, @08:40PM (#803161)

    Yet another post about how your $presumed_innocent_activity is killing the planet, exploiting children and upsetting the little old lady down the street.

    To buy off your guilt, you just have to donate/conform_to_our_plan/think_right_thoughts/vote_the_proper_way.

    (We are equal opportunity. We offer left, right, faith based, and atheistic versions. You can choose your best fit to make you feel the most helplessly responsible.)

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @10:26PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @10:26PM (#803216)

    Meanwhile NASA is preventing people from reading their own literature supporting that global cooling is on the way:
    https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/big-questions/what-are-the-primary-causes-of-the-earth-system-variability/ [nasa.gov]

    The Sun is the primary forcing of Earth’s climate system. Sunlight warms our world. Sunlight drives atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns. Sunlight powers the process of photosynthesis that plants need to grow. Sunlight causes convection which carries warmth and water vapor up into the sky where clouds form and bring rain. In short, the Sun drives almost every aspect of our world’s climate system and makes possible life as we know it.

    Earth’s orbit around and orientation toward the Sun change over spans of many thousands of years. In turn, these changing “orbital mechanics” force climate to change because they change where and how much sunlight reaches Earth. (Please see for more details.) Thus, changing Earth’s exposure to sunlight forces climate to change. According to scientists’ models of Earth’s orbit and orientation toward the Sun indicate that our world should be just beginning to enter a new period of cooling — perhaps the next ice age.

    https://s3.amazonaws.com/jo.nova/debunk/us/nasa/nasa-climate-forcings-2010.gif [amazonaws.com]

    Here is someone quoted the page before it was hidden: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/12/climate_change_its_the_sun_stu.html [americanthinker.com]

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @10:43PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @10:43PM (#803222)

      Because, idiots read that and think that it supports the denier community. When in reality, it has nothing to do with 'but the earth is cooling!! nasa said so!!'.

      As we expect the planet to enter a minor cooling phase, we see it warming up to a degree an order of magnitude greater than the estimated cooling effect. The responses to the Nasa quote are equivalent to saying "jeez it's hot in this burning house, but since it's snowing outside let's just sit around and not bother calling the fire department".

      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @11:02PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @11:02PM (#803226)

        It doesn't say "minor cooling phase", it says "perhaps the next ice age".