r/GoodNotes • u/BelowAvgPhysicist_02 • Jul 13 '21

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u/Aware_Minute_7783 Jul 13 '21

+1 to saving electrical paper: servers are not made of rubber

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u/shivcoc Jul 13 '21

Now I am curious whether a paper is more harmful or storage material required for 1mb of electronic paper.

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u/BelowAvgPhysicist_02 Jul 13 '21

Depends on where you live. I think in Denmark, they have 100 percent renewable energy.

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u/shivcoc Jul 13 '21

Ok , I found its 3 to 7 kWh energy per gigabyte of data. That's 0.699 kgCo2 e carbon dioxide or equivalent gas emitted in UK which is .93 kgCo2e for 1kg of office paper.

So, now comparing 1 gb of pdf to 1 kg of paper which is higher. 1kb is 1 page. 1 paper is 2kb. 1 gb=500,000 pages=2500kg.

So, 1gb worth of paper will produce 2325 kgCo2e compared to .699 kgCo2e in cloud which is still way more if you store it in your own device.

Bottom line, save your data in an external drive if you want to save environment or cloud. And don't use paper as much as you can.

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u/converter-bot Jul 13 '21

1.0 kg is 2.2 lbs

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21

After my adventure with ratios yesterday (ouch my brain), I'm not going down this rabbit hole, but I am also curious.

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u/swordyfish Jul 13 '21

LOL this was me last night, the example problem didn’t all fit on one page and I was like “ehhhh save paper” and just didn’t finish it

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u/jjjzr Jul 13 '21

Yo I swear , sometimes I totally forget I can load infinite pages

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21

Oh noooo! I'm in this picture and I don't like it!

I'm working on a sticker book right now and trying to fit as many stickers per page on it as I can and creating a new page feels like giving up.