I come from a 30 career of electronic manufacturing infrastructure stuff. It scares me to think of the environmental cost of manufacturing a 12 square mile silicon chip. And yes, I'm thinking about the cost of most of the stuff involved in doing it... the chemical required, the electrical power (enormous, but I don't have a kJ number) building the plant to do it, the people to do it, the whole enchilada). Do you know that most of the power requirement was from COAL? Jeeeeezeeee
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I come from a 30 career of electronic manufacturing infrastructure stuff. It scares me to think of the environmental cost of manufacturing a 12 square mile silicon chip. And yes, I'm thinking about the cost of most of the stuff involved in doing it... the chemical required, the electrical power (enormous, but I don't have a kJ number) building the plant to do it, the people to do it, the whole enchilada). Do you know that most of the power requirement was from COAL? Jeeeeezeeee