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European average carbon footprint for video streaming as producing 55g of CO₂e per hour. This CO₂e or carbon dioxide equivalent is a comparable measure of the potential effect of different greenhouse gases on the climate: 55g of CO₂e is 50 times more than audio streaming and the equivalent of microwaving four bags of popcorn

What the fuck is this article? This is not helpful in any way. Yeah du-doy the thing that uses electricity “creates” carbon. How bout we remove fossil fuels from the grid then?

1.1g per hour is ridiculously efficient. An average meal in the Western world is ~3Kg.

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antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

55g of CO₂e is 50 times more than audio streaming and the equivalent of microwaving four bags of popcorn

How much is that in football fields?

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- P1nkman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  0.54% of a foosball table. Or 0.00000000000000042% of the length of two average elephants.
  
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exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
That’s one of my pet peeves, when people use relative comparisons to overstate things that have very small absolute differences.

55g of CO2 is basically nothing. A gallon of gasoline represents about 2400g of CO2 emissions when burned. So for a typical vehicle that gets 30 miles per gallon, 55g of CO2 is basically the equivalent of driving 0.6875 miles (1.1km).

It’s less than the carbon footprint of a cup of coffee (60g).

Or, alternatively, eating a single quarter pound hamburger would be about 3 kg of CO2, or 55 hours of video viewing at this rate.

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P1nkman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It’s to put the blame on the consumer. Fuck these cooperate overlords. I’m hungry, when do we eat?

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JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I’ll keep streaming and just eat less popcorn. I’ve been needing to cut back. I blow a kiss to the sky. I got your back, Mother Earth. I always check the resin identification codes before I recycle plastics, too.

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