[#EnvironmentalFootprint] The development of the Athena X-IFU instrument, the high-resolution X-ray #spectrometer that will be aboard ESA's #Athena space observatory in 2037, has an environmental cost.
An analysis of the instrument's lifecycle has identified the main items of energy costs, mobilization of mineral and metal resources, ...
For your consideration:
researchers have assessed that generating a single AI image requires the same amount of energy needed to fully charge your iPhone battery. Training an AI model also requires “626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide, or the equivalent of around 300 round-trip flights between New York and San Francisco—nearly five times the lifetime emissions of the average car.”
https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2024/4/23/how-ai-cheapens-design
#LLM #AI #EnvironmentalFootprint #carbon_footprint
#Recycle #Plastic #Enzymes #Food #Environment
“…with #plastic production doubling every 15 years. The relatively low cost of #petroleum based polymers encourages their single use and #overconsumption. Synthetic plastics are recalcitrant to #biodegradation, and #mismanagement of plastic waste leads to their accumulation in the #ecosystem, resulting in a disastrous #environmentalfootprint.
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-092120-091054
The New Books Network was kind enough to feature my book, "From Handwriting to Footprinting. Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis", in their podcast series.
Tune in to listen to it (e.g., me talking about it) here:
https://newbooksnetwork.com/from-handwriting-to-footprinting
Don't forget - IHI calls 4 & 5 are now live!
Topics include:
Reducing healthcare's #environmentalfootprint
#AlternativesToAnimalTesting
Inclusive #ClinicalTrials
Patient-centric blood sample collection
and more!
Read our press release: https://europa.eu/!FNknmv More on Call 4: https://europa.eu/!CYj638 More on Call 5: https://europa.eu/!BxrRWT
"Lookups take enormous numbers of queries these days. A support customer was asking why a lookup wasn’t completing within 3 seconds. The resolution process took 48 queries with a cold cache. Involved several CDNs and required fetching nameserver addresses in several different TLDs. There where no retries
in that count.
CNAME chains are expensive but we have a whole industry that has fallen in love with them."
(On an OARC mailing list.)
#ExtremeWeatherEvents are already jeopardising #coffee crops and driving up consumer costs. And these trends are anticipated to continue as the world continues to warm.
https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/commodity-profile-coffee/
#carbonbrief
#EnvironmentalFootprint #climatechange
"The fat-takers cross the oceans": how ecological overshoot started 500+ years ago, way before #fossilfuels
@ckohtala @Aepasek @Melf @maximilian @erazlogo @inquiline@mastodon.social @akstuhl @mel_hogan @dawnnafus So here's an update everyone from the thread: the first article of our collective has been published by the EASST review. #EnvironmentalFootprint https://www.easst.net/article/the-environmental-footprint-of-social-media-hosting-tinkering-with-mastodon/
RT from Dan Benitah (@DanBenitah)
Interesting #OpenCV session happing in 2days about reducing the #EnvironmentalFootprint of your #iot #projects
https://youtu.be/y_SIMvdPF40
Could that be combined with your idea for the #CarbonHack22?
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DanBenitah/status/1571989811808051202
