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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)."
dont eat any old simms or dimms then kids...
MilkMiruku
No wait, then it'll sit in a landfill.... I know, I'll BURN it!
...that the 32kg of water go away, and are never to be seen again? Oh no!!! We could run out of water!!!
Don't forget about the hundreds of Pizzas consumed during R&D...
They should move their operations to the USA where they will be elligible for huge tax breaks.
Alot of people don't know about these tax breaks: I was going broke paying taxes on my small consultimg firm, when we found about one of the better tax-breaks avaialbe:
All we had to do was kill a new-born baby harp seal for every hour of billable time, and presto! No taxes for us!
We get special credit for killing only the cute seals, the deformed ones have less of a tax-break.
It's good for the environemnt too, because we only want cute seals, we cut the six-pack rings each and every time. We woulden't want one to cause a deformation in one of the seals - there'd go money right down the drain!
It's a win for us: no taxes
It's a win for the governemtn: keep the seal hords ay bay
It's a win for the seals: the get to see fun-time sparkles in the back of their eyes when we bludgon them.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Attention:
If you use RAM, then you are supporting Terrorists.
That will be all.
Ariana Huffington
P.S. Don't drive your SUV's with Osama bin Ladin in the passenger seat.
P.P.S. Drugs are BAD!
700 grams of nitrogen? But....the atmosphere is, like, 78% nitrogen or something. What happens if we use it all up? We'll have only 22% of the atmosphere left, and that's mostly oxygen, which is a lethally corrosive and highly flammable gas. We'll all die!
Who measures water in kg? Maybe they were too lazy to convert it to liters. Wait, where's my calculator...
You must work for NASA. 32kg of water at STP = 32 liters = a tad less than 8 gallons, not 1.7 gallons.
In other news, each beer sold generates on average one toilet flush. In areas with a lot of old large-sized toilets, that can be almost 32kg of water per beer.
I feel bad, because I've consumed many more beers than memory chips in my life.
My god, at this rate RAM production will consume all of Earth's resources! They must be stopped before Earth is transformed into a floating mass of DRAM!
...programmers consumed 2700 hamburgers, 1503 pizzas (276 vegetarian, 1227 containing meat or meat by-products), 16204 cans of soda (assorted), 790 bags of microwave popcorn and 1 office chair. Three programmers were temporarily blinded while downloading movies & images for research. No animals were harmed...Oh, hang on, I forgot about the ones in the burgers & pizza.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. - William Shakespeare
For every single retail copy of Windows XP you need:
1.45 kg monopoly
3.5 inches FUD whitepaper
2.5 ml fresh blood from a GNU developer
133 million miles Gates evangelizing tour
7 outrageous "OSS = anarchists"-type lies
4,51 GW Ballmer "Developers, developers!" scream
5 spelling errors from Cmdr Taco
Make beer, not DRAM.
That's right, folks. Need some memory for your machine? Got a few people around you don't like? Don't want their water? Well, come on by my shop! I'll take those spare water rings off your hands, and with the addition of just a few chemicals, produce for you lots and lots of desktop-runnin', gcc-compilin' RAM! No more annoying neighbors, roomies or anything!
I didn't think the house band in Hell would play this badly.
I'm selling my computer and buying a hamburger.
.. for buying 1GB DDR SDRAM sticks.. since buying in high capacity means the environment suffers less :D
Yes, that was a joke.
~Idarubicin