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Re:Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks ... by barnacs on Monday September 26, 2016 @11:08AM (#12582445)
On the other hand, clean energy is getting cheaper and more widespread globally so power efficiency probably matters less for electric appliances. At the same time, I'm not sure how efficiently humanity is dealing with waste and if we can expect any significant improvement any time soon.

But yeah, it's definitely an interesting balance to think about.

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Re:Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks ... by brianwawok on Monday September 26, 2016 @11:54AM (#12582870)
On the other other other hand, there is no such thing as "clean" power.

Wind power takes up land that could be better used for nature or growing food, and kills birds. The turbines are made out of materials that have the same problems as other things. Clearly reducing demand for power is still a good thing, even if we got to 100% renewable power. (And at current low renewable power levels, 1 extra KW of electricity is directly coming from oil or coal or something nasty)

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