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.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @10:43PM (1 child)
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
It doesn't say "minor cooling phase", it says "perhaps the next ice age".