[Arm-netbook] "recycling not the answer"

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/06/embodied-energy-of-digital-technology.html
>> if the energy cost of the plastics injection molding is enough to
>> power a 30 watt laptop for 1,000 days (3 years), then clearly,
>> recycling of the plastic, doing exactly the same thing, is *not* doing
>> the environment any favours.
>
> I don't see where in the article it states such a cost.

 i'm not so concerned with precision, on this, just the general
principle and that someone has done the research, and found out such
estimated costs.

> I does mention
> pretty much exactly this cost when talking about the price of the memory
> chips, IIRC.

 something like that, yeah.

l.