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So if we are going to account for all of the things making my smartphone possible as consuming electricity, I think we should account for all of the things asso
by dvdbloc 7y ago
So if we are going to account for all of the things making my smartphone possible as consuming electricity, I think we should account for all of the things associated with running my refrigerator such as the energy it takes to make the food I want to store and the refrigerated trucks it took to get to me.
- weego 7y agoThat's a false equality. Counting food would be analogous to counting the energy used to build the apps. The fact that a fridge has less features that require additional power draw don't detract from the point.
- dredmorbius 7y agoThe power utilisation of a refrigerator scales at best poorly with the quantity of food moved through it, unlike a smartphone (door openings is a far greater predictor), and human food consumption is generally constrained (1800-3200 kcal/day per person, more or less), whilst data appetites both vary and have grown markedly. You do raise a good point that behind msny. products is a long chain of either embedded manufacturing or complementary products costs. But the avoidable costs of food vs. data (refrigerated or not, people need food to eat; we'd survived 200,000 years before iOS) argues against your comparison.