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Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday July 14 2019, @07:52AM   
from the what-about-bitcoin dept.

shortscreen writes:

The Shift Project has released a report pointing the finger at online video as a significant, and growing, cause of greenhouse gas emissions.

From New Scientist:

The transmission and viewing of online videos generates 300 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, or nearly 1 per cent of global emissions. On-demand video services such as Netflix account for a third of this, with online pornographic videos generating another third.

[...] The authors call for measures to limit the emissions from online videos, such as preventing them from autoplaying and not transmitting videos in high definition when it is unnecessary. For instance, some devices can now display higher resolutions than people can perceive. The report says regulation will be necessary.

No word on the carbon footprints of HTTPS, JavaScript, or advertising.

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• And even more carbon footprints (Score: 5, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Sunday July 14 2019, @03:17PM

  by fyngyrz (6567) on Sunday July 14 2019, @03:17PM (#866911) Journal

  I wonder how much carbon emission is attributable to the practices of religion and the making of repressive law? Building, travel, heating, cooling, lighting, radio and television transmissions, Internet activity, enforcement, manufacturing tokens of superstition, printing and shipping of volumes and pamphlets containing fairy stories, wars and everything associated with them...

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  A compliment in the USA.
  An argument in the middle east.

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