On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:36:54AM -0500, [email protected] scripsit: > I also seriously think that more and more we will forgo electronic > devices that require charging and more and more go in favor of > devices that don't use energy.
Creating a book costs lots of energy; it costs more to ship it about, because it is heavy. Once you pass some number of books well under a hundred, the lifetime energy cost of the little electronic reader is less than the energy cost of pulping all those trees and shipping all that heavy paper. It's kinda like film; you can have a film camera with no batteries at all, but making the film and refining the chemicals for developing the film have energy costs, and the per-picture cost for digital goes below the film cost pretty easily. (The adoption of digital has not just been driven by the utility curve.) -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
