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Leon Brooks wrote: | On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:20, Jan Ciger wrote: | 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.
This is pure demagogy, Leon. I could argument exactly the same way to justify the benefit of reusing a medium instead of burning a new one each time. If you do not have the numbers to support this, it is just hand waving. But that's not the point of the discussion. There are also other practical benefits of using CD-RWs for short-lived things like one version of Mandrake distro.
If there are CD-RWs availabe in 700MB size now (some people wrote, that they are), then this point is moot anyway.
Jan
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