Carbon+Footprint

** A musical footprint is how much carbon is realized into the air when you acquire a song or album. The way carbon is released in the process of manufacture. The plastic that is used to make the casing uses fossil fuels, and other natural recourses. ** Fossil fuels or mineral fuels are fuels formed by the natural resources such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms that lived up to 300 million years ago. These fuels contain high percentage of carbon and hydrocarbons (Wikipedia).
 * What is a musical footprint? **
 * What are fossil fuels? **

A carbon footprint is a measure of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a person, organization, or location at a given time.
 * What is a carbon footprint? **

If you were to go to a store and buy a CD, your carbon footprint would be around 3000 gCO2. This takes into count: CD production that releases 250 gCO2, the case production that releases 500 gCO2, warehouse energy that accounts for 250 gCO2, retail store energy that is responsible for 200 gCO2, and customer transport which produces 2000 gCO2. Compared to a digital download of 400 gCO2 that is made up of the data center energy, the carbon footprint is 40-80 percent higher.
 * What is the impact of a bought CD on your carbon footprint? **

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