Your smartphone uses more electricity than a refrigerator

According to the calculations of scientists, smart phones "voracious" refrigerators. Current models of the past consume about 322 x kW / h per year, but, for example, the average power consumption iPhone - 361 kW / h per year, with most of the energy is spent on maintaining wireless connections and streaming data.

The total power consumption of the world's telecommunications systems is about 1,500 TW / h per year - 10% of the global electricity consumption and more than electricity markets of Germany and Japan put together. By the way, this amount is approximately equal to the total world energy consumption in 1985, the year.

According to the researchers' expectations, shortly hour volume of transmitted data exceeds the total Internet traffic for the entire year 2000, and according to some projections, by 2035 the ninth year on the use of technology "cloud data" will spend as much energy as lighting, while the main users of "clouds" are the owners of smartphones and tablets.

At this point, one of the main sources of electricity on the planet - coal, and the corporation «Apple», for example, according to the «Greenpeace», about 55% of the energy for the data center receives is due to the burning of fossil fuels.



As for the environment, coal - not the cleanest fuel, «Apple» is actively working on the development of renewable sources such as wind and geothermal, as well as hydroelectric and solar panels. As reported on the official website, the transition to eco-efficient energy sources will be implemented in the near future.

via factroom.ru