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Can't exactly conflate energy with carbon though, because manufacturers will use green energy at various stages of the manufacturing process. Just to put numbe
by oh_sigh 5y ago
Can'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...