Live Earth being in full progress now, the amount of awareness talk in the media is overwhelming. One of the measures to save energy discussed is unplugging your chargers after having charged you devices.
It is something that I usually did not do. Bit more aware now.
But thinking of ways to save energy, I of course came across my Nokia N95… and how energy consuming it is. I do not have the technological explanation, but I guess that a device that needs to be charged every day or day-and-a-half, is less earth-friendly than a device that consumes its energy more efficiently.
But we got to keep things in perspective:
Nokia has reclaimed its position at the top of the ranking. The front-runner has already eliminated PVC from new models of mobiles and is now eliminating BFRs from the remaining applications of BFRs – in new flexible circuits. Nokia gets top marks for its support for Individual Producer Responsibility, (each company should take care of the electronic waste from its own-branded discarded products). But, it loses points for poor reporting on the amounts of discarded mobiles that it recycles as a percentage of past sales.
[source: Greenpeace]
So maybe the N95 does do bad in consuming energy, but on a greater scale, this is partly compensated by Nokia’s focus on producing cell-phones in “greener” way.
I hope to see that the mobile phone is the first device (as it is always carried close to your body) that gets its energy from bodyheat… that would really make it earth-friendly!
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I find leaving chargers plugged in is usually a great energy saver, it saves MY energy, plugging it in and unplugging it.
However the N95 is different since I need to carry the charger with me everywhere.
Posted 07 Jul 2007 at 12:52 pm ¶I don’t really trust anything that comes from Greenpeace, Sierra Club, PETA, or groups like that. No matter what anyone does, it’s never good enough, and they’ll generate stats out of thin air to skew the entire perception.
Take it with a grain of salt…
Posted 08 Jul 2007 at 5:32 am ¶Actually, new chargers CUT OFF when they detect no power being used, thus making now difference.
The N95 one does this, (my one does anyway, its the really small one, compared to others), you can tell because it doesnt get hot when left connected, unless it is charging.
Posted 08 Jul 2007 at 9:56 pm ¶Trackbacks & Pingbacks 1
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