Very true.
Renewable resources .
I have just finished a book , yes a real paper book, called The Wood Age.
Materials come and go but it is always the wood age.
I can lend it to you , the family can read it, which is hard with kindle.
Printing on paper is like printing on farmed grains or recycled rag, there are many things to print on.
Renewable forestry has worked for thousands of years.
Steel can be made using charcoal instead of coal. Far less pollution and CO2 and us still made that way in some places.
Don’t discount the woods just yet.
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Originally Posted by multiweb
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.
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