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    Googling

    Reports on the "carbon cost" of googling.
    BBC NEWS | Technology | Carbon cost of Googling revealed

    I must google enough to have had a bath each week.
    Last edited by bubblewrap; 12-01-2009, 10:52 AM.
    The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
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    "[a] Harvard academic argues that these carbon emissions stem from the electricity used by the computer terminal and by the power consumed by the large data centres operated by Google around the world.
    Although the American search engine is renowned for returning fast results, Mr Wissner-Gross says it can only do so because it uses several data banks at the same time, producing more carbon dioxide than some of its competitors on the net.
    Mr Wissner-Gross says for every second we stay connected to the internet, we produce 0.02g of carbon emissions."

    Guilty as charged!
    I'm now logging off to go and have a cuppa tea, and save some carbon
    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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      But..........................IF we have a lot of these!
      YouTube - My hamster can not manage to stop spinning in his wheel
      The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
      Brian Clough

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Two_Sheds
        "...Mr Wissner-Gross says for every second we stay connected to the internet, we produce 0.02g of carbon emissions."

        Guilty as charged!
        I'm now logging off to go and have a cuppa tea, and save some carbon
        Knit me a new server whilst you're at it 2-sheds! How much electricity did this bloke 'waste' working that out?! What does it really mean?
        To see a world in a grain of sand
        And a heaven in a wild flower

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        • #5
          Originally posted by smallblueplanet View Post
          What does it really mean?
          Dunno - but surely it's less costly for the environment than going to the library to do the same research?
          A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

          BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

          Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.

          What would Vedder do?

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          • #6
            Depends if you walk there or not, and if they have sensor lights, or not. Of course there is also the assessment of heating a library, and the cost of transporting the staff there, and all the admin generated to run the location. At a guess per head usage, the total will probably be greater than 0.02g of Carbon emissions.

            Studies have very little benefit I think, as they have too specific an opening criteria and information is collated to generate the answers that the funding body wish it to. Statistics, and me are best kept apart.
            Last edited by Mikey; 12-01-2009, 03:34 PM.
            I'm only here cos I got on the wrong bus.

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