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Again, in a life cycle analysis, energy use from utilisation is dwarfed by energy used during production. With IoT the number of chips will keep increasing and
by mrpopo 5y ago
Again, in a life cycle analysis, energy use from utilisation is dwarfed by energy used during production. With IoT the number of chips will keep increasing and that's what determines the total energy (carbon) footprint, which is not the same as your electricity bill.
- colechristensen 5y agoYou have a point to a degree but a big PC+CRT is going to have those same costs and has a lot more mass to require energy during production, even compared to several mobile devices.
- oh_sigh 5y agoCan't exactly conflate energy with carbon though, because manufacturers will use green energy at various stages of the manufacturing process. Just to put numbers on this, according to this article from 2014[0], an iPhone has an embodied energy of 278 kwh, which is about 10 days of energy usage for the average American household. [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/10/the-energy-in-things/381557/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/10/the-e...