Go Green with Eco-Friendly Laptop !
The quest for green technology still goes on. PopSci.com has published an interesting article outlining the steps designers can take to produce a more eco-friendly laptop. Although this super laptop has not yet been built, the article’s proposed solutions for a device that could marry tech genius and environmental consciousness.
Eight major ecological issues were concerned, as you can see in the picture. One of them including the materials used to make them. According to PopSci, producing the current plastic requires excessive oil and energy. Bioplastics, which are plant-based polymers, demand less of these precious resources.
Another one is the disposal of laptops–19,000 tons a year are thrown into dumps–and the article reveals that there’s headway being made on upgrading computer parts by simply removing one panel rather than rewiring the whole device. One pioneer in this area is Asus, which hopes to make this process cheap enough to appeal to consumers, thus eliminating the need to throw away seemingly obsolete machines.
PopSci also tackles the power issue. Although laptops are meant for on-the-go use, they spend the majority of the day plugged into a socket. As such, solar-powered laptops, PopSci notes, are a great alternative.
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