I just got a PDF. Read it and was about to archive it on my PC when I wondered... is that better in enviROI terms than printing it out?
It was 1.5M. Not huge in the great scheme of things (well, these days), but 99 more and I have a Gig. 99 more of those and I have my hard drive. And when that's full, I need a new one, plus backup.
Is that one sheet of A4 (Viking recycled) I have printed out really so bad?
Note: Prof's Posers appear on the site and also in Junkk.com newsletters. We've had a few interesting bits of feedback. See what this one may bring.
Junkk.com promotes fun, reward-based e-practices, sharing oodles of info in objective, balanced ways. But we do have personal opinions, too! Hence this slightly ‘off of site, top of mind' blog by Junkk Male Peter. Hopefully still more ‘concerned mates’ than 'do this... or else' nannies, with critiques seen as constructive or of a more eyebrow-twitching ‘Oh, really?!' variety. Little that’s green can be viewed only in black and white.
Monday, October 08, 2007
2 comments:
I believe in freedom of speech. But I also don't like bullies on blogs, even verbal ones, as they can drive away those with something valid to say... or offer.
Subjective is fine, but well argued and substantiated is even better. Calm and polite tops. Anything that crosses my personal line will not go up. There may be reasons given, but not guaranteed.
I'm not too keen on 'Anon' as a handle (and the content usually explains why), so if that's what you opt for it may not make it. Sorry.
You can get a lot more than you reckon on your hard drive.
ReplyDeleteA Gigabyte is actually 1000 Megabytes (and 1 MByte equals 1,024 KBytes), so you could actually get 680+ documents of a similar size in 1 Gig. In an 80 Gig hard drive you could therefore theoretically get more than 54,000 such documents.
It is, however, an interesting question to put on Prof's Posers. The paper can, of course, be recycled again; but in a way, so can the space on your hard drive; once you decide you no longer need it, it gets deleted and the space if free for you to store some other data in.
It would take some pretty heavy duty calculation to work out the actual energy consumption of the hard drive in addressing and retrieving the document. Not something that I'm going to volunteer for!!
I love the smell of brainpower in the mind-afternoon.
ReplyDeleteSo dubious maths gratefully corrected.
I will always need stuff like this. I am a man. And I created Junkk.com. So be it bytes or paper, it will be retained.
I was not thinking so much of the operational consequences of the drive; more the making it and getting it to me.
All adds up!
And I think I have another Prof's Poser coming that asks if carbon offsetting by planting a tree is a good thing, surely by using paper from managed forests we are actually doing more good than recycling or even cutting back on usage!
In fact, by this logic, I offset with each page I print!