azwhitewolf
07-25-2007, 02:33 PM
PC World to sell wooden PC
By Chris Mellor, Techworld
A supposedly zero carbon PC is being developed by PC World, featuring wood casing for keyboard, screen and mouse. Use of recycled materials and low electricity needs will reduce its carbon footprint to 85 percent of a standard PC. (Photo here.) (http://www.telegraph.co.uk. /earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/06/16/eapc116.xml)
Derek Wall of the Green Party said: "Vista requires more expensive and energy-hungry hardware, passing the cost on to consumers and the environment."
To make the wooden PC carbon-neutral, PC World will buy carbon offsets. These are being criticised as allowing people to use carbon-emitting devices now with no guarantee that an equivalent amount of carbon will actually be taken out of the atmosphere over the next ten to thirty years.
Source (http://techworld.com/green-it/news/index.cfm?newsid=958 0)
AZWW: Owning a Mac never looked so good if this is how their PC counterparts are "working to compete" in the marketplace.
By Chris Mellor, Techworld
A supposedly zero carbon PC is being developed by PC World, featuring wood casing for keyboard, screen and mouse. Use of recycled materials and low electricity needs will reduce its carbon footprint to 85 percent of a standard PC. (Photo here.) (http://www.telegraph.co.uk. /earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/06/16/eapc116.xml)
Derek Wall of the Green Party said: "Vista requires more expensive and energy-hungry hardware, passing the cost on to consumers and the environment."
To make the wooden PC carbon-neutral, PC World will buy carbon offsets. These are being criticised as allowing people to use carbon-emitting devices now with no guarantee that an equivalent amount of carbon will actually be taken out of the atmosphere over the next ten to thirty years.
Source (http://techworld.com/green-it/news/index.cfm?newsid=958 0)
AZWW: Owning a Mac never looked so good if this is how their PC counterparts are "working to compete" in the marketplace.