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This is true if you make naive assumptions like making circuit boards are a clean technology with no CO2 emissions or other harmful side effects. That of course
by TSiege 4y ago
This is true if you make naive assumptions like making circuit boards are a clean technology with no CO2 emissions or other harmful side effects. That of course is entirely incorrect. Printing circuit boards are very energy intensive along with a lot of other impacts like toxic waste and heavy water use.
> In the US, a single fab, Intel’s 700-acre campus in Ocotillo, Arizona, produced nearly 15,000 tons of waste in the first three months of this year, about 60% of it hazardous. It also consumed 927m gallons of fresh water, enough to fill about 1,400 Olympic swimming pools, and used 561m kilowatt-hours of energy. (source https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/18/semiconductor-silicon-chips-carbon-footprint-climate https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/18/semicond...)
Kombucha on the other hand, yes produces CO2 as a waste product, but it is very easy to see a kombucha SCOBY being carbon neutral. That is the source of it's sugars being carbon energy free, and the manufacturing process of SCOBY circuits as well. Then it's carbon neutral
- grogenaut 4y agoIs that Intel fab doing circuit boards or etching silicon wafers for integrated circuits, a completely different operation. Doing a CPU out of a scoby would be real bio computing :)