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What is your Carbon Footprint when using the Internet?

Started by thehotaisle · 8 months ago

How much CO2 does one Google search produce? How much for one EBAY auction or for a SecondLife avatar, or running one blog like http://www.thehotaisle.com? How do our activities on the Internet compare to driving our car? The answers might surprise you……
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  • thehotaisle

    8 months ago

    Rolf blogs in German so here is a translation of some of the calculations that get to the equivalent of a 7.6KM car journey for a blog entry:

    As an example, this is how I calculated the surpisingly high blog post on blogs.sun.com number:

    We are hosting 66183 blogs in 3 years, running on two T2000 (the best servers you can get when it comes to power efficiency).

    A pair of Sun Fire T2000 servers draws 2*320Watts. Double that number for cooling and infrastructure, so you need 33628KWh in three years. That's 0.5KWh for every blog! One KWh electral power created in a coal power plant creates 1700 grams of CO2 - so the global warming effect of this blog is comparable to a runner running 21 kilometers (or sitting in front of his computer for one whole day).

    Steve
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  • solar for home

    4 months ago

    Thats a very good question. if this figures go be right, then we are polluting the environment at a rate we cant sustain.
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