I read this article in the newspaper this morning and decided that it's definitely worth putting up on here. This isn't the whole article, but just a few of the main paragraphs...
Will Gadgets doom the Earth?
By Greg Keller- San Jose Mercury News
“An energy watchdog is alarmed about the threat to the environment from the soaring electricity needs of gadgets like MP3 players, mobile phones and flat screen TVs.
In a report Wednesday, the Paris-based International Energy Agency estimates new electronic gadgets will triple their energy consumption by 2030 to 1,700 terawatt hours, the equivalent of today’s home electricity consumption of the United States and Japan combined.The world would have to build about 200 new nuclear power plants just to power all the TVs, iPods, PCs and other home electronics expected to be plugged in by 2030, when the global electric bill to power them will rise to $200 billion a year, the IEA said...”
“...If nothing is done, this figure will double to around 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year by 2030, the IEA said.”
San Jose Mercury News - May 14, 2009
I guess sometimes all you can do is laugh at how our ignorance is the thing that's destroying this whole planet. To read the whole article, it can be found in the San Jose Mercury Newspaper (May 14th, 2009). I wasn't able to find it anywhere online.
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