{"id":2031,"date":"2007-12-03T11:38:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T11:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/03\/the-environmental-cost-of-phys\/"},"modified":"2007-12-03T11:38:05","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T11:38:05","slug":"the-environmental-cost-of-phys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/03\/the-environmental-cost-of-phys\/","title":{"rendered":"The Environmental Cost of Physics Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I burned out some diode lasers a while back, and needed to buy replacements. Here&#8217;s one of the replacements on top of the tube containing the other, with a US quarter for scale:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-61c557630c56b4b39182ce10f1a77cf7-sm_diode_laser.jpg\" alt=\"i-61c557630c56b4b39182ce10f1a77cf7-sm_diode_laser.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here they are, with the box and packing material used to ship them to me:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-7af093cc931b4fb845e7507fa9d25379-sm_diode_w_packing.jpg\" alt=\"i-7af093cc931b4fb845e7507fa9d25379-sm_diode_w_packing.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I realize that this is probably due to somebody at the laser company deciding to save money by standardizing on a single size of shipping container. Still, this seems just a <strong>tiny<\/strong> bit excessive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I burned out some diode lasers a while back, and needed to buy replacements. Here&#8217;s one of the replacements on top of the tube containing the other, with a US quarter for scale: Here they are, with the box and packing material used to ship them to me:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,19,32,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-experiment","category-my_lab","category-physics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}