The Costs of Making a DRAM Chip

Anonymous Coward writes "Researchers at the United Nations University in Tokyo studied the physical and environmental costs to produce one 32-megabyte DRAM chip. Their conclusion? The UNU team found that to make every one of the millions manufactured each year requires 32 kg of water, 1.6 kg of fossil fuels, 700 grams of elemental gases (mainly nitrogen), and 72 grams of chemicals (hundreds are used, including lethal arsine gas and corrosive hydrogen fluoride)."

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[Arnok]

Just goes to prove how fast we kill ourselves for the sake of more megabytes, Can it be chaulked up to M$ poisoning the planet because the require so much Ram to run windoze.....

Re:Recycling

[fataugie]

Computers sent to recyclers in America, and other countries for that matter are ending back in Asia. yes, some is recycled and that's good, but a lot of toxins are leached out.. Let me get this straight....Asia is the main producer in computer components, and these toxic chemicals are used in the production....then aren't we just returning the toxic chemicals to where they originated?

Is it my fault the dude (dudette) disassembling the components don't have the common sense to wear gloves? Do I need to remind them to wipe their ass after taking a crap too? "Front to back to avoid an infection"