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Environmental Impact of Music Streaming?

posted by janrinok on Monday February 18 2019, @06:54PM   
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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• Re:Energy Bill Re:Energy Bill (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @08:40PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @08:40PM (#803162)

  It is because they showma average rather than the entire distribution. If a few "neighbors" have empty houses (for sale, on vacation, etc) that drags down the mean a ton. So pretty much everyone thinks they are using more than everyone else...

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• Re:Energy Bill (Score: 2) by Apparition on Monday February 18 2019, @09:04PM

  by Apparition (6835) on Monday February 18 2019, @09:04PM (#803181) Journal

  That's pretty much what I figured. I mean, I do have at least one computer on 24/7 and my parents leave their television on 20 hours a day, but it can't be that much higher than the average portrayed. It's just a shame tactic to get people to kowtow to the environmentalists. I doubt they expected people like me to see it as a challenge. 😛

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