Given the amount of stuff coming through for recycling from our corporate clients this pretty much sums it up.
Moore’s Law for corporate computer repair
xkcd tells it like it is.
Plastics and change
Thanks to Lawrey and Lole, creators of The Little Things, for the use of this cartoon. Visit littlethings.co.nz for more information about their cartoons And boy, just how things have changed!
Like a lot of good cartoons this one speaks volumes. It highlights societal change over generations. It shows the increasing environmental awareness amongst the younger generation. It shows the cycle from new product to the discovery of a problematic issue with it and then the need to address that issue. This is a cycle that is all too commonly seen by environmentalists.
E-waste and volcanoes
Check out this circuit
I am having trouble doing fault finding on this circuit.
Thanks to fotophil for alerting me to this rather interesting problem.
My knowledge of circuit theory is failing me. I don’t recognise some of those circuit symbols. And do Kirchhoff’s Laws, and Norton’s and Thévenin’s Theorems work on this circuit?
Image credit: http://xkcd.com/730/
Appliances and energy consumption
Here is one of Alex Hallett’s Arctic Circle cartoons about appliances and energy consumption:
It probably is the case that the eco setting does not do a lot when you look at the Big Picture. Also, how often does it actually get used?New power stations and fossil fuel emissions are the two big environmental effects of electricity generation. Here in New Zealand something like 70% of electricity is from renewable energy sources which means carbon emissions per kilowatt/hour is not as bad as other countries. In recent years plans for at least three major hydroelectric power stations were scrapped for an assortment of reasons, and this may well be the trend in the future.
Another consideration is the environmental effect of discarding older models without an eco option versus buying a brand new one with it.
