--- In [email protected], "David R Henley Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When a selling point is that the evil timber and toxic ink companies
will suffer because I stop buying paper magazines then I am instantly
turned off. ... Guess I will be skipping the e-zine and sticking with
my big bad corporate paper magazines.
As an energy engineer, I'd wager that the electrical energy used to
turn the computer on over the course of a decade for the purpose of
referencing an E-zine article would introduce enough pollution into
the environment to more than cover the amount of pollution associated
with producing and discarding a railroad magazine (Does anyone really
do that?!). Not to mention the energy required to run the server, cool
the server, etc. From an environmental perspective in a country that
generates roughly 70% of its electrical energy from coal-fired plants,
it's most likely a zero-sum game. We're likely going to have to put
up a few nuke plants to run all of these E-zines!!
As I see it, the E-zine thing is kind of like email. While
implemented due to speed, email also has the benefit of reducing paper
consumption. But we're not going to stop using email because it has a
"green" benefit associated with it. So also, I wouldn't give up on a
free magazine just because of that "green" thing. You can pay for the
paper rags AND get the E-zine. The benefits of interactive content
look to be really neat and it's a great opportunity for S scale to get
some articles published that wouldn't make it in the larger paper
publications. On the downside, it's likely that older content will
find a way to disappear (server crashes, lack of money, etc.) and it's
dang tough to take it with you to the crapper.
Rhett
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