Mobile Magazine » earth day http://www.mobilemag.com Gadgets, Smartphones, Android Tablets, iPhone, iPad and all the latest tech you'd expect. Sat, 18 May 2013 02:58:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Earth Day Tip From a Gadget Geek http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/04/22/earth-day-tip-from-a-gadget-geek/ http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/04/22/earth-day-tip-from-a-gadget-geek/#comments Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:12:23 +0000 Fabrizio Pilato http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=116716 Today is Earth Day, and one way we can easily help curb our CO2 impact on the planet is to not search Google. According to Google, each search uses roughly 0.0003 kWh of energy, or 1 kJ.

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]]> Today is Earth Day, and one way we can easily help curb our CO2 impact on the planet is to not search Google. According to Google, each search uses roughly 0.0003 kWh of energy, or 1 kJ. The human body uses 8000 kJ a day of energy from food, so a Google search will use about the equivalent of 10 seconds of human energy. In relation to automobile use, a Google search creates 0.2 grams of CO2 emissions, that’s not a whole lot considering driving one mile produces the same amount of emissions as 1000s of Google searches.  But if you drive you can make a sacrifice and not drive today, then you can sit inside and search Google all day.

Watch your energy consumption

Get on Google PowerMeter and track your energy usage, keep tabs on peak hours and learn how to reduce and save. You can do this with many different devices, here’s a list of supported ones that can help you keep an eye on power consumption:

Devices to monitor Power Consumption

  • AlertMe
  • Blueline
  • Brultech
  • Current Cost
  • Digi
  • eGauge
  • PowerHouse Dynamics
  • The Energy Detective (TED)
  • WattsUp
  • Wattvision

Your best bet for today though, just shut everything down, go out in the sun, explore nature and have some fun.

Photo: CurrentCost meter

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]]> We already know that Steve Jobs and the rest of the team at Apple have no problem generating that other kind of green, but how are they faring when it comes to taking better care of our planet? Earth Day is tomorrow, so it’s oddly appropriate to take a look at how green the iPhone is.

The infographic embedded here comes by way of Geekaphone and it outlines some enviro-minded factoids on the iPhone for you to consider. For example, of the 45kg of CO2 pumped out as a result of the iPhone 4, 57% comes from production and 35% comes from consumer use. The sad thing is that consumers aren’t really doing their part with less than 10% of phones being recycled.

There are over two million cell phones entering landfills each week, since the average life span of a phone is less than 18 months. This results in 65,000 tons of toxic waste (equivalent to three small oil tankers) being dumped at the dump each year.

What about Apple? While the reduced packaging has done some good (14% fuel savings), it’s still scary to think that 30 companies on 3 continents are responsible for the iPhone, including 300,000 workers in China earning less than $10 a day. That opens another can of worms altogether, but it’s still worth knowing as you download another fart app and stream another video on Crackle.

 

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