Gregory's ServerCalculating the Carbon Footprint of Streaming Media: Beyond the Myth of Efficiency findings
* 90% of the energy used for a device is spent in producing it i.e. before you touch it
* 1 hour netflix is equiv. to burning 200g coal
* or driving ~2km (1.4-1.8)
* 0.8kWh in energy use per (video) stream seems to be a useful metric to measure against
* energy use for a laptop is roughly 30x less demanding than a desktop pc?! incl. manufacturing energy
@cblgh IMO the main issue with that article is that the equivalences take more than a grain of salt to be properly interpreted.
Take the coal/driving equivalence: basically watching a video stream for a whole day is _less_ than a car roundtrip to next town over. A naive if slightly malicious newspaper title might say "Scientists discover that watching Netflix is better for the environment than even the shortest of daytrips!" [cont.] :local_only: