Energy For Our Mobile Phones.

gl556tr | 06:01 Tue 04th Oct 2022 | Technology

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What proportion of our electric energy is required to keep our mobile communications systems alive? I wonder.

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probably a lot less than is used in "mining" the few remaining Bitcoins?

Must be tiny...although a handful of posters on ab news must be responsible for a fairshare of it

do you mean the whole commutations system including satellites ?
not a clue but must be very high

do they run electric cables up to satellites? LOL

Go back to messengers on horseback.

Bazile

//do they run electric cables up to satellites? LOL//

(Rolls eyes ) Of course not - silly .

The cables are connected over WI FI

Huh?

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In the U.K. alone, the millions of mobiles and supporting servers depending on electricity could be considerable.

There are also an awful lot of kettles, and they use considerable amounts of electricity.

Phone chargers use very little.

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'Tis the backroom hardware, servers etc, that would be the energy-gobblers, surely?

Why single out mobile phones? What about the internet?

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