Your daily waste of 0.02g of CO2
Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches - Times Online
...a typical search generates about 7g of CO2 Boiling a kettle generates about 15g. said Alex Wissner-Gross, a Harvard University physicist whose research on the environmental impact of computing is due out soon.
A separate estimate from John Buckley, managing director of carbonfootprint.com, a British environmental consultancy, puts the CO2 emissions of a Google search at between 1g and 10g...
...viewing a simple web page generates about 0.02g of CO2 per second. This rises tenfold to about 0.2g of CO2 a second when viewing a website with complex images, animations or videos.
So no more watching pointless videos with a clear conscience..
Comments
Every time I search for the ultimate, full length, Kim Kardashian movie via google, I now envision a polar bear cub stranded alone on a shrinking ice floe in the ever-warming North Atlantic. . .
Posted by: Bob W | January 11, 2009 4:26 PM
I read crap like this and get a sudden craving to set fire to a golden eagle.
Posted by: David Gillies | January 12, 2009 5:16 PM