The Energy Cost of a YouTube Video
Online videos use a lot more energy than you might think.
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Show Notes
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Data: information, typically stored on computers via electrical signals
- Electrons: small elementary particles that flow through wires to transmit power and data
- Photons: small elementary particles of light that carry information from screens to your face
- Local Metro Network: computer network on the scale of a city, town, neighborhood, etc
- Live action video: a video recording of the real world (people, scenery, etc) created using a camera
- Data compression: storing data (pictures, video, text files, etc) in less space than the way it’s normally displayed. Kind of like a modern version of microfilm. Or words.
- Illustrated video: video created using computer software to generate still images, kind of like a fancy powerpoint slideshow
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