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Impact and mitigation of computing resources

Manufacture of IT equipment has a significant environmental impact.

Strategies to help reduce this:聽

  • Consider repairability index of equipment to be purchased聽
  • Consider slight over- specing of machine to prolong whole life 鈥 how to calculate this?聽
  • Strive to re-use /repurpose equipment or donate for re-use rather than recycle (but also consider impact of prolonging use of low efficiency devices)听听

Resource utilisation听听

Physical Materials聽

What will the utilisation pattern of the particular resource over its expected lifetime be and does that warrant a physical piece or equipment (rather than a virtual component either from Computer Science (currently on premis) or cloud based)?聽

贰苍别谤驳测听

In terms of energy consumption and energy recovery, centralised resources are more efficient.聽

Produce set of scenarios and score in terms of embodied energy, earth resources, energy consumption and carbon footprint of energy (is 香港六合彩中特网 100% renewable, what about Azure and AWS?)聽

别奥补蝉迟别听

It's not actually waste, just expensive*聽to break down into recyclable (or reusable) components. Investigate if there is more we could do to preserve materials value in a higher state? Engage with 听听

Set up 鈥淒ismantle circles鈥, like knitting circles but instead of knitting we take stuff apart and chat about how things are made, repaired and聽designed.聽 聽

* But what鈥檚 the real cost? It's actually to our environment if we don鈥檛 make use of the material, either in new resources being mined, energy of production or pollution from recycling.

Also look for novel ways of re-use e.g. magnets from HDDs聽