Excerpts from andy baxter's message of 2010-07-07 10:08:09 +0200: > On 07/07/10 08:55, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > The only problem with old gear is power consumption. I don't know what's > > worse from a purely ecological point of view. Most power is still > > generated from non-renewable sources. > > > > I think it's pretty hard to say - any comparison of this sort ends up > comparing two or more quite different problems (e.g. global warming from > fossil fuel use versus local water pollution from copper mining). People > try to put numbers on this sort of thing, but the methods they use are > often pretty suspect. > > andy I didn't even think that far, both minerals and non-renewable energy sources are exhaustive, so my question more or less was: what's exhausted first? Eventually both will need to be 'renewable'. Which reminds me of a little strange idea I had: Get the people to strive for renewability instead of profits. Competition for something worthwhile that benefits everyone, doesn't it sound nice? :) -- Regards, Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
