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JANUARY 7, 2022

million metric tons of electronic waste in 2019, up more than 21% over five years, according to the United Nations’ most recent assessment. Only about 17% of that e-waste was recycled, and what happens to the rest can be detrimental for both human health and privacy. The world generated a record 53.6 We have so, so, so many devices.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It’s designed for on-demand production to reduce waste from unsold inventory. LG announced at CES 2022 that its new OLED TVs will use more recyclable materials and shave down packaging waste, and Lenovo introduced a Yoga laptop partially constructed from recycled plastics. Repairability dovetails with the larger goal of sustainability.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

So IEEE Spectrum is making one of its occasional forays into science fiction, with a short story by Karl Schroeder about the unexpected outcomes from building a computer out of planet Mercury. Any computation generates waste heat. F Solar power is exponentially more abundant at Mercury’s orbit compared with Earth’s.

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JULY 9, 2022

This article was first published as “Lotfi A. Journal or San Jose Mercury News ), Business Week, The Economist Favorite kind of music Classical and electronic Favorite composers Sergey Prokofiev, Dimitry Shostakovich Computer A Hewlett-Packard workstation, which is used “only to print my e-mail; I dictate all my answers to my secretary.”

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APRIL 2, 2022

This article was first published as "Design case history: the Commodore 64." You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. But this wastes 2 kilobytes of RAM. ?“A Mercury News criticized the “flashbulb effect” noticeable during the swimming event. It appeared in the March 1985 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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APRIL 21, 2009

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) estimates that the current power grid could handle many tens of millions of cars plugging in at off-peak hours before wed have any capacity issues [See EPRI article PDF ]. Toyotas Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries are considered "non-hazardous waste" [See "high voltage electrical systems" ].

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