On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:20, Jan Ciger wrote: > Leon Brooks wrote: >| On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:21, Jan Ciger wrote: >|>I would rather prefer good old 650MB. I can write the images to a >|>CD-RW and when a new version is out, just rewrite them without >|> having old obsolete CDs with old versions laying around.
>| At AUD$0.40 a blank, who cares? > Does ecology say anything to you ? I hate throwing things away, it is > not always about price. How much more energy does your computer use burning the rewriteable - slowly - each time than burning a one-shot? Budget about 70W for an economical Linux "white box" with a flat screen, 300W for a bleeding-edge super-hyper-turbo multi-CPU muscly-GPU monster with a 21" monitor. Is the energy embodied in the manufacture and disposition of a CD blank more than this? If so, burning the one-shot discs is kinder to the environment. If the energy embodied in a CDRW is significantly greater than that in a simpler CDR, you need to discount the CDRs' eco-burden for that too. Cheers; Leon
