This Video Has Consumed 1731070 AA Batteries!
Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minuteearth for sponsoring this video. The title of this video is changing every 10 seconds to reflect an estimate of the actual energy used just by people...
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You are currently watching an online video, which means your screen is shooting photons at your face in a pattern determined by pieces of data that have traveled around the world as electrical impulses. The motions of these electrons and photons are undeniable physical actions with real energy costs that even energy-conscious video-makers can’t avoid: by the end of this video, you will have used the equivalent of about two double-A batteries. Some of that energy is used by your device itself. Laptops consume around one double-A battery’s worth of energy every five minutes; mobile phones and tablets use one every half hour or so. That’s a lot of juice, but it’s only a portion of the total energy used to watch an online video. The rest comes from deliver...
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You are currently watching an online video, which means your screen is shooting photons at your face in a pattern determined by pieces of data that have traveled around the world as electrical impulses. The motions of these electrons and photons are undeniable physical actions with real energy costs that even energy-conscious video-makers can’t avoid: by the end of this video, you will have used the equivalent of about two double-A batteries. Some of that energy is used by your device itself. Laptops consume around one double-A battery’s worth of energy every five minutes; mobile phones and tablets use one every half hour or so. That’s a lot of juice, but it’s only a portion of the total energy used to watch an online video. The rest comes from deliver...
