happy_hawking t1_j5717ze wrote on January 20, 2023 at 9:09 PM

Reply to Carbon capture nets 2 billion tonnes of CO2 each year — but it's not enough. As well as cutting emissions, governments need to ramp up investment in carbon dioxide removal technologies to hit climate goals. by filosoful

There is a carbon capture technology that works flawlessly since thousands of years: trees. Awesome, isn't it?

happy_hawking t1_iqr1am5 wrote on October 2, 2022 at 2:03 PM

Reply to comment by darkarrow0 in My mother's ~33 year old Whirlpool dryer. Still works amazing! by vocke

You're right, I found this paper (in German) which explains the relations between resource consumption in production and in daily use on page 7: https://www.oeko.de/fileadmin/oekodoc/FAQ-Langlebigkeit-elektronische-Produkte.pdf

"It can take up to 40 years to compensate for the additional resource use if you replace a washing machine from 2000 with a new one today".

Whatever that means for a 33 years old dryer. 33 years feels pretty close to break even. Depending on the amount of savings that were implemented in the years before 2000 it might already be crossed ...

I also learned that the biggest waste of all is that everyone has their own washing/drying machine instead of sharing it with others ...

happy_hawking t1_iqqv9n6 wrote on October 2, 2022 at 1:16 PM

Reply to My mother's ~33 year old Whirlpool dryer. Still works amazing! by vocke

Have you ever checked its energy consumption? Home appliances is a thing that is worth to buy new every ~10 years even if it is still running.