Streaming movies and albums online is a wasted burden on the web traffic.
But it is saving Big Media billions of dollars in overhead, inventory, distribution, middlemen, etc and increasing their profit margin.
There are other articles that say that local playback of music (on your own harddrive or even a CD) is better for the environment.
The only tax-free streaming allowed will be CNN, MSNBC, NPR, DU, and Huffington Post. Everybody else will be taxed through the nose.
heard much energy used to mine for bitcoin. (IHNIHTW)
They film “Better Call Saul” near where I work. Filming of a 30-second scene takes several hours, with set-up and take-down, the entire 20-second scene takes four days to film. An entourage of about 100 people, at least 30 vehicles and large trucks. Generators running 24-7 to support it all. And they have the chutzpah to lecture me on my energy use.
What a damn joke.
While all true, the climate alarmists will argue that the only reason there is a large carbon footprint from any and all online activity has to do with the modes of electricity generation, which should be “fixed” by shifting to “100%” “renewable” sources. LOL Like that’s going to happen and if it happens going to work - NOT.
Well that will kill watching porn anyway, ‘cause the sun don’t shine (and make solar power) at night when most porn is watched. /sarc
I call bs.
Unused bandwidth has the same cost as used bandwidth. Zeros have the same cost as ones.
The only cost is infrastructure capacity.
Pricing, however, is not set up that way.
Color TVs were big glass bottles, with the earlier sets full of tubes, all requiring power for their filaments and high-voltage power supplies. As semiconductors replaced some of the tubes, you still had the big one and a handful of smaller ones. Projectors for private viewing used 1000-1500 watt lamps.
The progression continued as computer screens and TVs transitioned to plasma, then LED, and now OLED. Big power drop as the trend continues. (Ever tried to give away an old glass-bottle TV recently?)
All the recent depictions of porn watchers have them viewing the stuff on laptops, tablet, and smart-phones. Yes, Pitch Perfect scene with port showed it on an LCD screen in the frat house, but Beca watched The Breakfast Club on her laptop. Lower power. Battery powered devices, that serve multiple purpose other than porn-gazing.
How about them server farms? As Intel and AMD roll out their new chip-sets, the power consumed by those chip-sets plateau at about three watts each, and the increase in computing power drives the joules/cycle further down. Long-distance cabling is moving faster and faster to fiber, with the transmitters and receivers sipping power, when compared to the microwave base station power.
It's too bad stories like this don't put all aspects of the issue in perspective.
Liberals need porn because they can’t get the real thing.
“” “” Watching adult films accounts for over 4 per cent of all carbon dioxide emissions associated with digital technologies, says a new study.”” “”
Did they include masturbation-related emissions? Or it is not smart to give them ideas.