Is Angry Birds increasing global warming?

We are well aware that Angry Birds do a lot of damage to complex structures and greedy green pigs, but do they do damage in real life?

The most successful mobile game ever can damage your eyesight after a frantic gaming session or even your social life in extreme cases; However, reports from Platform Nation suggest that Rovio’s masterpiece is harming Mother Earth. The theory seems crazy but bare with us and we’ll explain how John McMahon broke down math in his interesting article or YouTube video.

The theory assumes that the game is played on an iPhone 3GS with a playtime of 3 hours per download. IPhone uses 4 watts while charging, with a full charge requiring 3 hours, or 12 watts * hours. The figure used is 100 million downloads, which gives 300 million hours of reading. Since playtime equals one full charge, 100 million full charges were used for the sole purpose of playing Angry Birds.

So 100 million full charges * 12 Watt * hours = 1.2 million kilowatt * hours (kWh). Then, assuming that 1 kilogram of coal = 2 kWh, 600,000 kg of coal is consumed to power Angry Birds. 1 kWh = 2 pounds of CO2 produced, so 2,400,000 pounds of CO2 are generated. They estimate that carbon offset companies would charge between $ 30,000 and $ 50,000 to offset this.

I think it’s an interesting experience; However, Angry Birds has been singled out and is no worse than any other game that is played while consuming electricity. I’m convinced that there are much worse things that contribute much more to carbon dioxide emissions than playing Angry Birds on a smartphone. I think it’s safe to say that Angry Birds users will be able to play a bit more before the world ends. Leave us your thoughts in the comments.