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The Environment / Are E-Cards environmentally friendly?
« on: 05/12/2010 21:30:03 »
Dirk.Slawinski asked the Naked Scientists:
Hi Chris,
A friendly hello from Perth.
I've got a Holiday related question for you. In these digital times are eCards really as eco friendly as they are promoted. They do not use paper and so save trees and do not incur a harvest and processing "cost". They travel via "wire" and so do not impose an air fuel cost. However, we do spend more time online looking for that perfect card, my last one took about 30 minutes of searching and that takes electricity [ref: the Google search QOTW]. Then there is the server and local storage and transmission time on routers, switches etc etc... These all take electricity, granted not much individually but taken as a whole does it work in favour of the eCard?
TTFN
Dirk =:>
What do you think?
Hi Chris,
A friendly hello from Perth.
I've got a Holiday related question for you. In these digital times are eCards really as eco friendly as they are promoted. They do not use paper and so save trees and do not incur a harvest and processing "cost". They travel via "wire" and so do not impose an air fuel cost. However, we do spend more time online looking for that perfect card, my last one took about 30 minutes of searching and that takes electricity [ref: the Google search QOTW]. Then there is the server and local storage and transmission time on routers, switches etc etc... These all take electricity, granted not much individually but taken as a whole does it work in favour of the eCard?
TTFN
Dirk =:>
What do you think?