The Costs of Making a DRAM Chip

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The Costs of Making a DRAM Chip

Posted by michael on Thursday January 23, 2003 @05:57AM from the paying-the-price dept.

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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United Nations University? by Rhubarb+Crumble · 2003-01-23 06:07 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Uh oh, watch out for those black helicopters!
It is extremely slow... by Chocolate+Teapot · 2003-01-23 06:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I posted this reply last Tuesday!

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Re:Parent is known troll - check history by tekunokurato · 2003-01-23 06:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

you idiots- the Gi was obviously a typo, as he used Ge below that. look here.

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Re:FreeBSD was probably the problem by Bassman59 · 2003-01-23 06:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Adam Rightmann: "You would be better off using an AT&T branch of SYSV UNIX, at least people in New Jersey believe in God."

Not all of us.

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Re:This is typical by TheShadow · 2003-01-23 06:40 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Why do this when all the pollution is on the other side of the planet. Who cares.

I know you are nothing but a troll... but I just had to reply so that I could make an ignorant anti-tree-hugger comment.

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Re:Take chemistry much? by Zathrus · 2003-01-23 08:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Helium doesn't cancel gravity, it just happens to have a low density

The one true bit in your post.

BTW, there aren't "many" Helium containing compounds. At least not as compared to other elements, or even other noble gases. There are no currently known stable compounds of Helium.

Second, I would assume the "Gi" was a typo

Or would you assume the "Hi" later was actually HI? And he actually did mean Germanium the first time?

clearly meant "HeGI", which is Helium Gallium Iridide and is widely used in chip manufacture

I is Iodine. And before any compound can be widely used it has to exist in the first place.

Not that it matters, you are a known trollbuster and should be modded down

It's always funny seeing a troll whining about a troll buster. Your standard MO is no different from the original poster's.

And yes, you may now be happy that you got some attention. Your life as a troll has been fulfilled for today.

Frankly, I'm bored and it's rather fun debunking your posts. They're at least somewhat better than Jack Wagner's.