It is just mind boggeling looking at this pictures and amazing how many parts are needed to put products together (not even thinking about the machines needed to make them and the man hours to put all those together). Photographer Todd McLellan has captured beautifully the disassembly of average products on his website toddmclellan.com and created pieces of art, but there are also other such images to be found on the web as the one of the VW Golf. Thinking of a car and looking at all those parts it serves as a rude awakening that we focus too much on the environmental impact of the final product and its use, rather than the energy consumption of all machines and equipment needed (including shipping, etc.) to make the components. Calculating the combined energy consumption needed for production I wonder how that compares to the energy consumed using the final product. AJ
An interesting clip of the deconstruction of a Hyundai Genesis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HcFMWKThpg&feature=player_embedded
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