Call for salvaged hardware!

[Timothy Hildred]

they wouldn't have to be highly skilled labour

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Matt Price <moptop99-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > It would be nice to know what to do with genuinely old computers.
> > There's also an environmental question -- when you can buy an embedded
> > system with the same processing power, it's not obvious that running
> > big fat p2 desktops is really a green alternative.  i would very much
> > like to hear others' ideas on this subject.
>
> Throw in a "cost of production" analysis, too, to muddy things further.
>
> If you discard the old machine, there are some environmental costs to
> building the new one.  Of course, it's possible the new one's smaller
> and, in some relevant ways, more efficient.
>
> Analysis of junking automobiles has similar issues:
>
> - The new one will be more efficient (with the computer, likely wildly
> faster)
>
> - The old one may be more expensive to power than the new one.
>
> - But we don't know for certain what costs (beyond the surrogate of
> evaluating the amount of money charged) there are in constructing the
> new one.
>
> It seems as though, notably with computers, it's easy for it to be way
> too much effort to try to reclaim old ones, unless you somehow have a
> surplus of free highly skilled labour with nothing more valuable to do
> with their time.
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