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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: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday February 19 2019, @12:20AM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday February 19 2019, @12:20AM (#803261) Journal

    Ah, so now we'll burn the house down buried in "educational material".

    Use the tax revenue to fight climate change by funding educational materials that raise awareness about the problem

    :-) Which will be streamed in 4K. I like that. Reminds me of that thing that said *Why do we kill people who kill people to prove that killing people is wrong?*

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