I had no idea until today the carbon cost of each google search. Turns out that every second on the internet amounts to 0.02g of carbon emission. That's pretty crazy when you think of the millions of internet hours consumed on a daily basis.
Check out the following BBC article, you'll never google the same again:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7823387.stm
One way to save on carbon emissions is by making your home search engine page black, which is what the people at Blackle have done, check it out:
http://www.blackle.com/
the things we never think about...thinking of turning our blog all black
Monday, January 12, 2009
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I don't get it. Are those folks measuring the energy consumption of the data centre? The client PC? Or everything in between?
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