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Greenpeace Complains Game Consoles Aren't Green Enough
jasoncart writes "None of the major games consoles are 'green enough', says environmental group Greenpeace in a report released today. Zeina Al-Hajj, Greenpeace's International Toxic Campaign co-ordinator, said: "We were shocked with Nintendo; it was our biggest surprise." The company is described by the group as the least 'green' tech firm."
errr ... don't laugh. That exists : http://www.hempplastic.com/
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More useless propaganda, and the idiots that fall for it.
For the last two years, Nintendo has been rated the worst. But, not because that is the truth. They are rated that way because they refuse to disclose their environmental methods. And, by disclose, I mean that Nintendo didn't have that information readily available on their website.
See this follow-up report from Ars Technica.
In other words: nothing to see here; move along.
All of you saying Bush is slowly creeping in on your liberties, you need to look at the real enemy: the far left environmentalists. They (and the politicians joining them) are using false science to control your life and liberty, by saying that such clearly innocuous items as light bulbs are going to destroy the planet.
According to this http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/08/wii-the-greenes.html/, the Wii uses 17 watts of energy, compared to the PS3's 171 watts and the 360 Elite's 194 watts.
Doesn't this make th Wii the greenest? OK, so it may not be the easiest to recycle, but it's an order of magnitude better on power consumption!
What does Nintendo do to help protect the environment?
Nintendo is very concerned with doing our part to help preserve the environment. We're always researching new products and procedures to make our products and operations as environmental-friendly as possible.
Some things Nintendo is already doing:
In Nintendo of America offices:
In our products:
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sorry, that's Phthalate : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalates
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Its not a lack of disposal policy, its the fact that they refuse to disclose it to Greenpeace which makes them mad. All three of the systems use BFR and PVC
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i'd worry about phtalates after i was sure my balls wouldnt get chopped off in a console battery explosion.one has to know his priorities.
... ugh ... priorities.
Given that phtalates are associates with reduced testoserone levels and testicular cancer, among other things, I'd suggest double-checking your
And while you're at it, maybe check to see whether you're starting to grow breasts. Sometimes friends and family are too polite to say anything.
They could try to be honest...but this is Greenpeace and honesty isn't what they do.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Greenpeace has been pretty good about not doing anything too car-bomby. However, there are a number of other environmental activists (like the Earth Liberation Front and such) who do - in fact, "guerilla warfare" is more or less an explicit part of their mission - and some people probably lump them together, as they share a cause.
Which is less than ideal, but hey, lots of people do things like that. For example, some well-intentioned people lump all the Christians together whether they're midwestern Protestant young-earth-creationist fundamentalists, borderline new-age syncretists, old-school Orthodox or Catholics...
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Tree-spiking, piracy (the APL Jade in 2002), arson, etc.
Modern copyright is theft of culture from everyone and it retards the progress of the useful arts and sciences.
There have been incidents.
Also - apparently in spite of --now-- publicly trying to distance themselves from the Sea Shephard, there are credible ties to GP and a ship specifically built to ram and sink whaling ships.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
terrorism: trying to achieve political goal by propagating terror so the citizens pressure their government to accept terrorists revendications.
So it's easy:
--Ambushing soldiers and killing them: not terrorism.
--Blowing up places for the mere reason they are crowded and that there will be many victims: terrorism.
--Getting in between whales and ships: not terrorism.
--Attacking ships and getting forceful control over them: piracy (not terrorism unless you have a political revendication and you try to propagate terror by doing so).
That does not mean I aprove any actions aforementioned but words have a meaning.
You can disable Connect24 if you like, which will drop you down to about 1.3 watts from the 9 to 11 watts typical.
The APL jade was not piracy. It was exactly the same thing Greenpeace does with whaling boats. They boarded the boat to hang a banner on it to advertise the fact that it was carrying illegally harvested mahogany.
Greenpeace never advocated arson. That was the Earth Liberation Front.
I don't care if you don't like Greenpeace. But if the only things you know about them are lies, then the only thing you don't like about Greenpeace are the lies that their enemies spout.
* Assume 20 hours a week of gameplay
* Assume that all consoles remain plugged into the wall for a year
* Assume that WiiConnect24 is active on the Wii
* Assume that the 360 and PS3 are powered down when not playing games. (A stretch due to their secondary functions, but we'll go with it.)
* I will compute using the average figures given in this article: http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-356-1.htm
* (20 * 52) = 1040 hours of playtime per year
* (52 * 7 * 24) - 1040 = 7696 hours of standby time per year
Gameplay Power Usage
Wii: 18.51 kWh
360: 192.5 kWh
PS3: 201.3 kWh
Standby Power Usage
Wii: 73.88 kWh
360: 19.24 kWh
PS3: 14.62 kWh
Total Power Usage
Wii: 92.39 kWh
360: 211.74 kWh
PS3: 215.92 kWh
Even with WiiConnect24 operating all the time, the Wii will still use less than half the power used by the 360 and PS3.
Q.E.D.
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