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Smoke signals environmentally friendly? Fun.
by deafpolygon 3y ago
Smoke signals environmentally friendly? Fun.
- coldtea 3y agoCompared to the "smoke" emissions of the huge infrastructure for electrical powered signals (whether directly fossil fuel powered or "renewable" using panels and wind turbines still built, transported, and installed with hugely polluting resources and processes, themselves powered by fossil fuels)? You'd be surprised. And that's just a first level comparison, a meta level would include the huge waste enabled by a real-time inter-connected world, over one with limited local signalling abilities.
- _Algernon_ 3y agoIf the material that is burned is wood, no net addition to the carbon cycle occurs. The issue with burning fossil fuels isn't the burning, it's the fossil fuels.
- deafpolygon 3y agoBut knowing people, they'll find some way to make cheap, quickly manufactured smoke signal machines.