Quote:
Originally Posted by Hemi
You can store the entirety of what’s ever been printed several times over on relatively few devices. That’s a lot of trees. The environmental cost of printing those books is huge comparatively.
|
Think about it this way. You cut a tree to make a book, you can plant another tree. So you capture back some of the CO2 and you close the loop kind of. Now if you store data on devices that need power to read/write you're using more energy. That's CO2 that we haven't figured out how to capture yet or put back somewhere in the ground. Unless your storage devices run on energy from burning trees only. Then all you have to do is plant back more trees. But I suspect all those massive on demand data centres run on fossil fuels.