Electronics makers vie to make machines green

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Pressure on electronics firms to implement green practices comes from many sources, including regulators, consumers, and even retailers.

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A Lofty Goal
by digitanomad January 8, 2008 8:14 AM PST: Consumer electronics are resource and energy hogs from petroleum based plastics to coal generated electricity to keep them powered.

Very little potential to be "green", now or in the near future. Absolutely no chance of ever being energy positive, or saving more energy than the energy cost of production.; Reply to this comment

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