Dell Technologies has announced Concept Luna, a sustainability focused project that the company is undertaking with the help of Intel in order to see how far you can push the boundary as far as reducing a product’s overall carbon footprint.

At this stage it remains very much an idea, so don’t expect to see Concept Luna devices flooding retail shelves any time soon. Instead, the project wants to be serve as a proof of concept.

“Concept Luna was created to test what could be possible, not to be manufactured and sold. But if all the design ideas in Concept Luna were realized, it could result in an estimated 50% reduction in overall product carbon footprint,” Dell Technologies explains in a press release sent to Hypertext.

During its design process, Concept Luna is said to have focused on the following elements:

• “A reduced product carbon footprint: new ways to increase energy efficiency, deliver better power and cooling and experimented with materials that have a smaller carbon footprint to help deliver a more decarbonized device.
• A future vision of reuse, repair and recreating: move from use, then recycle – to use, reuse multiple times and then recycle when the material is no longer usable in its original form. This iteration of Concept Luna does just that. It shows a vision for what could be.”

When will see a device sporting elements designed from this latest project remains unclear for now, but Dell Technologies appears to have laid a marker for the coming years as far as its sustainability goals are concerned.

As long as the necessary charging cables and power packs are included with the packaging too, you’ll hear no complaints from us when it comes to trying to reduce a product’s carbon footprint.