climate change – Amazon Surprise https://surprise.blackblogs.org Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:40:29 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 https://surprise.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1422/2020/07/az_frown_klein-150x150.png climate change – Amazon Surprise https://surprise.blackblogs.org 32 32 3. Correct! We are not saving any power https://surprise.blackblogs.org/en/2020/07/11/3-correct-we-are-not-saving-any-power/ Sat, 11 Jul 2020 07:21:01 +0000 http://surprise.blackblogs.org/?p=150 Commodity Trading
Through the costly transport of goods for our customers, we are all massively contributing to climate change. For the benefit of our customers, who prefer to order from home, we quickly destroy products that are as good as new or still usable, since products that have been returned and products that have not been sold for some time are often destroyed immediately, to save costs. Unfortunately, our own aircraft fleet also causes considerable CO2 emissions. The delivery of even the smallest individual quantities increases the emission of pollutants, but it also ensures your comfort and saves you effort and movement!
 
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You are likely benefiting too: from January to March 2019 alone, Germans over 14 years streamed around 1.2 billion hours of films and series on the Internet. Many use Netflix and Amazon Prime because it’s convenient – some may use it because it seems more environmentally friendly. But streaming services require a lot of electricity. To stream movies, series and songs online, data must be stored on servers. And these servers need power: According to SWR, the network infrastructure in Germany consumes about 55 TWh per year. To provide the electricity for this, you need about ten medium-sized power plants. By the way, one third of this power goes to air conditioning systems. They have to cool the data centers to about 25 °C so that they do not overheat. Of course, not only streaming services are part of the network infrastructure, but they make up a large part of it: Global data traffic consists of 80 percent video data. The files are particularly large and therefore also consume a lot of space on servers and a lot of energy during transmission.
In 2018 alone, video streaming has caused more than 300 million tons of CO2 equivalents. This is equal to the amount that the entire country of Spain emits in one year. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, emissions have increased dramatically. Two other figures illustrate the extent: in general, streaming causes a whole percent of global CO2 emissions, or 20 percent of all greenhouse gases caused by digital technology.
We do our part – for your entertainment!
]]> 7. Correct! Not that much https://surprise.blackblogs.org/en/2020/07/07/7-correct-not-that-much/ Tue, 07 Jul 2020 11:26:09 +0000 http://surprise.blackblogs.org/?p=188 Let’s be honest: sand is becoming scarce because it is needed for the production of cement. The manufacture of cement accounts for 8 percent of global CO2 emissions. A lot of cement is needed for a high-rise building. According to the European Cement Association, at least half a metric ton of CO2 is generated in the production of one ton of cement. Entire beaches are being demolished and seas dredged all over the world for construction projects and artificial islands. Sand from entire stretches of coast is being robbed in Indonesia. For example, in the bay near Palu on the island of Sulawesi. 2.8 billion metric tons of cement are produced worldwide every year – and this is accompanied by massive environmental damage. But every progress demands resources and experimentation. However, we keep on hoping that in the future our Artificial Intelligence will find solutions to save the destroyed earth, and maybe even mankind!

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