Sustainability - with Michael Engel

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Show Notes and Links

Flo and Julian talk with Michael Engel who went from teaching operating systems fundamentals in Germany to researching sustainability at the NTNU in Norway.

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Resources

• Dirty ships
• Plea for a Holistic Analysis of the Relationship between Information Technology and Carbon-Dioxide Emissions
• emscripten
• Fabrice Bellard’s x86 emulator written in JavaScript
• Purism, makers of the Librem laptops and the [Librem 5 phone](https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
• Openmoko
• Michael Engel’s blog
• Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler by Niklaus Wirth
• Plea for Lean Software by Niklaus Wirth
• School of Niklaus Wirth
• Computer Latency 1977-2007
• Oberon FPGA-system
• DIGITAL FX!32:Combining Emulation and Binary Translation

Capitole

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Sustainability Basics (00:02:36)

3. CO2 Equivalents (00:06:59)

4. CO2 Lifetime Analyses (00:11:05)

5. Obsolecense of Devices (00:17:45)

6. Resource-hungry Software (00:31:21)

7. Open-Source Hardware (00:43:35)

8. Oberon (00:55:32)

9. Outro (01:01:51)