Houston, we have a problem
Chinese state media have of course been silent on the next environmental disaster China is causing for the world, but fortunately, the Dutch media are on top of it. While in China the number of mobile callers is rapidly nearing the half billion, a group of fifty scientists in Columbia have revealed that mobile phones contribute to global warming.
Not the batteries are the problem, but the billions of calls heat up the waves. Solutions have not been given, but we can better start raising pigeons again. Hold on, maybe we should first ask fifty scientists if raising pigeons is not bad for the world.
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Since there are no details of this piece of news, I am just guessing.
I don't think it is the mobile phones itself the scientists are talking about, but ALL the equipments that support the mobile phone networks. I don't have the figures, but you might want to ask one of the mobile phone company if they could let you visit one of their hundreds and thousands (in China) of cellsites. You would then understand what they are talking about. And that is only cellsite. Of course you also have the telecom switches, the huge antenna, the satellites, and the air-conditioning to keep the places cool, and other communications equipments. Not to mention the buildings and offices that are work places for the army of engineers and support staff.
Air-conditioning -- in the tropics, one of the great producers of heat into the atmosphere is the airconditions. As we might know, air-conditioners work in the reverse logic of a refrigerator -- take in cold air and expell hot air. So ... the more cell-sites and switching centers, the more air-conditioning is needed, the more hot-air into the atmosphere.
And we are not even talking about the electricity/energy yet to run these places.
NOT so far-fetched theory. Compare to landline, mobile phone is one giant hot-air producer. The find out the root-caused, we need to look further than just the obvious.
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