DISQUS

thehotaisle · 1 year 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

solar for home · 8 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.