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Do you have a citation for that factoid?
by jcheng 11mo ago
Do you have a citation for that factoid?
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- jiggawatts 11mo agoApologies, looks like I mis-remembered the numbers from the original debate, the actual number is about 110x 40-foot containers. It can be calculated easily enough from the # shipped, the volume of a charging case, and the volume of a shipping container. It doesn’t alter the conclusion that much: in the grand scheme of human industrial activity, this is nothing. I.e.: if AirPods were made by an independent company, that firm would be in the top 50 of the largest corporations in the world! For example, a comparable sized company would be Coca Cola, which goes through 300,000 tons of aluminium annually for their cans, not to mention oil used for plastic bottles!
- jcheng 11mo agoSure, I’m with you on your larger point.