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Computing in the age of climate crisis is often wasteful and adds nothing useful to our real life communities. Here we try to find out how to change that.

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Comparing the environmental costs of buying a brand new high-efficiency Mini-lab computer, instead of a used less efficient one. (www.youtube.com)
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I thought this video was rather interesting, because at 12:27, the presenter crunches the numbers to find out how many years it would take for a new computer purchase to be more environmentally friendly (in regards to total CO2 expended) compared to using a less efficient used model.

Depending on the specific use case, it could take as little as 3 years to breakeven in terms of CO2 if both systems were at max power draw forever, and as long as 30 if the systems are mostly at idle.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No one replaced hw cuz of environmental concerns. It is 100% about how much the energy consumption would drop because of how much the energy costs to use.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This community, Permacomputing, is about trying to reduce computer waste and consider other environmental concerns. Per the sidebar:

Computing in the age of climate crisis is often wasteful and adds nothing useful to our real life communities. Here we try to find out how to change that.

That's why we're discussing that aspect :p