Environmental performance HI-Md vs the rest

[Kaineda77]

Hej folks,

I know this is a somewhat nerdy post, but hear me out.

Yesterday I took a look at my NH1 cardboard box and I found a list of environmental beneficial NH1-things, like lead-free soldering, no PVC in cables, low energy consumption, and some other stuff I dont remember.

I do care about these things, and a lot of my friends, who I often try convince of Mds merits, do too.

So does anyone know how good - environmental wise - HI-Md is in comparison to Ipod and his brothers and sisters?

I guess the biggest point is energy consumption, so any numbers like X W/hours listening?

Thanks beforehand.

[tekdroid]

Hej folks,

I know this is a somewhat nerdy post, but hear me out.

Yesterday I took a look at my NH1 cardboard box and I found a list of environmental beneficial NH1-things, like lead-free soldering, no PVC in cables, low energy consumption, and some other stuff I dont remember.

I do care about these things, and a lot of my friends, who I often try convince of Mds merits, do too.

So does anyone know how good - environmental wise - HI-Md is in comparison to Ipod and his brothers and sisters?

I guess the biggest point is energy consumption, so any numbers like X W/hours listening?

Thanks beforehand.

not sure, but all these things are coming to be 'cause of stricter laws in EU and elsewhere. They've become a part of doing business globally. The box itself, being cardboard, is part of the whole waste reduction thing, too (which started about 10-15 years ago). I still remember almost everything coming in polystyrene by default before then. Of course we still see enough of the stuff these days.

Anyway, it's an industry-wide movement to source less environmentally damaging components and materials to sell in certain markets.

As for power consumption, any differences would be minimal. More environmental impact would be made on heat losses through the AC adaptor, total charge time to charge the battery, etc. than actual power consumption comparisons of any units, I reckon.

The materials used to make the units and the energy consumption and environmental impact of chip fabrication and plastic manufacture (etc) would be interesting to know. I think they'd play a far bigger role in environmental damage. Also integrated batteries versus removable often means that the unit with integrated battery that no longer holds charge is thrown out by many when Average Joe gives up on it (helped by high costs of battery replacement (if any) and lower costs of better model available in the stores). Case in point: Nano's soldered-onto-mainboard integrated battery.

So things like that are doubly wasteful and just add to landfill. Which probably brings us to reliability, which is probably more important (environmentally speaking) than all of them put together. Since a reliable product can delay the landfill step by quite some years...

[Kaineda77]

thanks tekdroid, i hereby close this thread since I guess the problem is too difficult in the first place, I dont want any of you wasting time conducting life cycle analysis of various portable music devices.