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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Not yet, but we will get solar panels on the roof. I agree with Steve, the footprint of an electronical device is much smaller than paper. If I look at myself, since I bought my first ebook reader, I've bought about 70% less paper books. And I'm now using my second device (actually my third, but my second is in use by my husband, so it's being recycled  ) |
Seriously speaking, the electricity is a true problem when people read online magazines with their desktop computers. Those rarely use energy saving modes even if they would have such things and constantly drain a lot current while somebody is reading. What I have read from magazines about the subject, it is estimated that with the power consumption the online reading is pretty much as environment unfriendly as paper magazines. This obviously doesn't apply to low consumption devices like laptops or real e-Readers, but still.