| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
notageek
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 05 Jun 2008
Posts: 131
Location: MA, USA
|
 Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 5:29 am Post subject: Internet emits 830 million tonnes of carbon dioxide |
 |
|
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/internet-emits-830-million-tonnes-of-carbon-dioxide/articleshow/17911851.cms
| Quote: | MELBOURNE: Internet and other components of information communication and technology (ICT) industry annually produces more than 830 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main greenhouse gas, and is expected to double by 2020, a new study has found.
Researchers from the Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications (CEET) and Bell Labs explain that the information communications and technology (ICT) industry, which delivers Internet, video, voice and other cloud services, produces about 2 per cent of global CO2 emissions -- the same proportion as the aviation industry produces. |
I wonder how much CO2 OTW emits. Although it's most likely to more CH4 than CO2.
_________________
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. -- Bruce Lee |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
big dave
n00b
Joined: 03 Jul 2009
Posts: 0
Location: land of first world problems
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 5:50 am Post subject: |
|
|
| yes, your ipad is killing the world. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
sikpuppy
n00b
Joined: 12 Jun 2012
Posts: 34
Location: Central Coast, NSW
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:35 am Post subject: |
|
|
| big dave wrote: | | yes, your ipad is killing the world. |
My iPad is super absorbent. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
wswartzendruber
Veteran
Joined: 23 Mar 2004
Posts: 1240
Location: ID, USA
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:38 am Post subject: |
|
|
Ironic...
My computer: ThinkPad
My server/router: ARMv5
My lights: LED x14, CFL x4
...and I think this whole "go green" thing is an environmental dollars scam. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Boris27
Guru
Joined: 05 Nov 2003
Posts: 562
Location: Almelo, The Netherlands
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:45 am Post subject: |
|
|
| wswartzendruber wrote: | Ironic...
My computer: ThinkPad
My server/router: ARMv5
My lights: LED x14, CFL x4
...and I think this whole "go green" thing is an environmental dollars scam. |
Why did you spring for LED lights then?
I'm not convinced it isn't a money grab scam, but I do think reducing your energy need is a good idea. Whether climate change is man-made or not, the fact of the matter is that energy is neither free nor infinite. More efficient stuff can't be bad, I guess.
_________________
we are microsoft, lower your firewalls and surrender your pc's. we will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. your culture will adapt and service us. resistance is futile. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
wswartzendruber
Veteran
Joined: 23 Mar 2004
Posts: 1240
Location: ID, USA
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 2:23 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| That's why I did it. The power bill. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
BonezTheGoon
Bodhisattva
Joined: 14 Jun 2002
Posts: 1375
Location: Albuquerque, NM -- birthplace of Microsoft and Gentoo
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
pjp
Administrator
Joined: 16 Apr 2002
Posts: 16360
Location: Rivendell
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 12:02 am Post subject: |
|
|
The best part about this?  Connected cars. Better, connected SUeVils.
_________________
45 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
aidanjt
Veteran
Joined: 20 Feb 2005
Posts: 1104
Location: Rep. of Ireland
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:19 am Post subject: |
|
|
| wswartzendruber wrote: | | ...and I think this whole "go green" thing is an environmental dollars scam. |
No, the whole "go green" thing is a physics limitation and equilibrium thing.
Never the less, the internet, even though it's entirety consumes considerable energy, saves far more energy on inefficient message passing, reduced travelling for meetings, getting things done, more efficient goods dissemination etc.. More importantly, electricity production can be switched to non-carbon technologies and effectively drop the internet's carbon footprint to a low amount, save for the shipping activity needed to service the internet and move goods around, and even then we could be looking at carbon-free technologies for that too.
The internet doesn't have a carbon problem, we do.
_________________
| juniper wrote: | | you experience political reality dilation when travelling at american political speeds. it's in einstein's formulas. it's not their fault. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
Off the Wall
