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A new report from the Cleantech Group called the Environmental Impact of Amazon’s Kindle claims that a single Kindle displaces the purchase of 22.5 books each year for an estimated carbon savings of 168 kg of CO2. If the full storage capacity of the Kindle is used, the device prevents the equivalent of almost 11,185 kg of CO2 from being released.
Now, enterprising young investigators, let’s play the six-degrees game with Cleantech Group and Amazon….
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August 24th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Psh. What about all of the CO2 and other harmful bits that go in to producing the Kindle? What does the Cleantech Group think? You just walk up a replicate a-la Star Trek and say “Kindle, version two point O, include no Dan Brown novels” and zap! The thing gets produced without any impact on the environment?
Six degrees indeed.
August 24th, 2009 at 11:47 am
What Dave says, yeah. I look forward to drinking Kindles in my ground water. I forget why we have to cut down trees to make paper when hemp does a better job for less money and greater sustainability. Must have been a logical debate on that one. Ah well we’re all better off without cheap paper – it just gets the vanity press crowd all excited.
August 24th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
I’m not convinced. The manufacturing process of electronics goods creates a huge amount of waste proportionate to the product and toxic waste at that. Not to mention what happens to electronics when it’s dumped and replaced every couple of years. It’s a huge environmental problem. At least paper can be recycled.
August 25th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
I doubt if you’ll need all six degrees. And besides the fact that loyal users (with Amazon’s wallet-fondling encouragement) will probably upgrade every few years to get the latest bells and whistles (thus negating the environmental advantage over print books), you also have to consider all of the energy that’s required to power and cool the server farms that host Amazon’s Kindle library. In contrast, the only powering and cooling needed when I read my well-thumbed copy of Lady Chatterly is a single light bulb and the occasional cold shower.