Thread: Planned Obselescence....A Good Thing?
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Default Planned Obselescence....A Good Thing?
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Rod Speed wrote:

Ross Herbert wrote:


Personally, I am all in favour of repairability if for no other
reason than it saves energy and resources across the board.


Its a tiny part of world energy consumption.


Do you have figures or reference to show that this endless manufacture
and replace with new process is a tiny part of world energy
consumption? I'd just assumed it was a major energy consumer.


NT


At least WRT automobiles, we could save a lot of energy by repairing
existing ones. I'm not sure what exactly it "costs" in energy to build
a car, but I seem to recall that it's something on the order of that
consumed by 10 years of regular use.

nate

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