On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:09:28PM -0800, Max Orhai wrote: > Here's a study which is a little more careful. Basically, it comes down to > how many e-books your expect to read over the life of your device. Baseline > for an iPad (considering only carbon emissions from manufacturing) is about > 100 books.
I don't know how you're using your ebook depository, but if used as a research library you'll easily access hundreds of documents/week. Fundamentally, a reader can be made as printed sheet of OLED upon the printed battery, resulting in a ~mm thin device with 2-3 years usable life which is then recycled. Nevermind that you can access your library from anywhere in the world, with full text search. I also noticed that I completely stopped buying books and printing since I bought my tablet. Electronics production may be energy-intensive and polluting currently, but that's not intrinsic to the technology. > http://www.greenpressinitiative.org/documents/ebooks.pdf _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
