Damn, did Technology Connections get everybody fired up? I just watched an Unlearning Economics video on the same topic.
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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Apple in my opinion is one of the worst companies at sustainability. Like yes the product is fast and reliable until it doesn't. Then you have to throw the whole thing away instead of being able to change the single piece that it's not good anymore.
Yeah and I wonder how much gets recycled. E-waste is a massive issue that's been around now for decades
microelectronics will be inherently difficult to upgrade, reuse and recycle. their continued hyper-evolution prevents any real programs. it will happen, but there are plenty of more voluminous, low-hanging-fruit we could be working on immediately.
these are bigger items that are now made like garbage like all home appliances. these things should absolutely be user-upgrade able, 100% recyclable and designed to last decades. they could easily be designed in more modular fashion, and absolutely used to last decades.
We’ll eventually reach a point where we can just have electronics scavenge the defective electronics.
You will find no argument here about the problems that arise when corporations are not required to pay for the garbage they produce.
However.
Optimising incandescent lightbulb efficiency is actually not easy to do. It is easy to make a lightbulb that lasts literally forever, if you run it cooler. But if you do that, your power efficiency will be total shit. (And your light will be uncomfortably red, but let's say that's less important for now.) You will waste a lot of money on your electricity bill. There will come a point when you will be wasting more money on electricity than the lightbulb is worth. This breakeven point is difficult to determine. It is a calculation that the average consumer shouldn't be burdened with.