[LINK] E-books: a quick calculation
Richard Chirgwin
rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au
Sat Feb 7 10:42:42 AEDT 2009
Because I'm sick of hearing unsubstantiated "e-books are greener than
dead trees" claims, I've run up a quick, non-rigorous calculation at my
otherwise nearly-idle blog, here:
http://chirgwin.blogspot.com/
There is an advantage - but probably only a small one, and highly
dependent on stuff I didn't take into account.
It's feasible that there's no advantage to e-books at all - even
excluding the question of other kinds of environmental damage, such as
toxic metals in the waste stream.
Cheers,
RC
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