A funny post at LSE Media@LSE group blog about why gaming consoles are bad. Ridiculous is the reasoning of the regulatory organization mentioned in the article: the XBox 360 and Playstation are having similar energy footprints to fridges. Time to raise the alarm!:)
Well, I’m curious if anybody have calculated the energy footprint of ‘Honey I’m home’ phone calls? Or ‘I’ve just landed’ phone calls. Altogether with the footprint of those cellular base stations in the airports when 417 or 555 passengers (Boeing 747 and Airbus 380 capacity respectively) start calling all together at once after landing. Don’t forget all switches and other network equipment through which the voice call is delivered to the recipient who may be on the another side of the globe… A little bit more than a fridge, I guess!
In that respect one can consider ArrivedOk as a greenest mobile travel application ever! It lets environmentally conscious passengers avoid those calls, still having their recipients notified about their arrival by just turning their cell phones on.

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