src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/5308/341313423781282/240/263620/gse_multipart58184.jpg" border="0" alt="" />Steve S.
I feel Steve S. - comment is worth sharing... He is an engineer working in Malaysia as a Machinery Engineer in a Big Oil Company and his insights or inputs are valid in my opinion.
I find this coment he made from the previous post worth sharing.
"Here in Malaysia there is a radio spot encouraging everyone to use the internet less as two typical searches use as much energy as boiling a kettle of water.
My first reaction was "so?" And then my second reaction was "BALDERDASH!"
I fully believe in reducing wasted energy, that is a big part of my job-reducing wasted energy and preventing carbon emissions for no good reason, but stopping internet usage? What we get everyone to get in their car and go to the library to look up information? Or maybe they drive all over town searching for something when they could have found it on the internet in seconds. The commercial is stupid.
Here is Google's stand on the subject substantiating my balderdash assessment.
"Recently, though, others have used much higher estimates, claiming that a typical search uses "half the energy as boiling a kettle of water" and produces 7 grams of CO2. We thought it would be helpful to explain why this number is *many* times too high. Google is fast — a typical search returns results in less than 0.2 seconds. Queries vary in degree of difficulty, but for the average query, the servers it touches each work on it for just a few thousandths of a second. Together with other work performed before your search even starts (such as building the search index) this amounts to 0.0003 kWh of energy per search, or 1 kJ. For comparison, the average adult needs about 8000 kJ a day of energy from food, so a Google search uses just about the same amount of energy that your body burns in ten seconds.
In terms of greenhouse gases, one Google search is equivalent to about 0.2 grams of CO2. The current EU standard for tailpipe emissions calls for 140 grams of CO2 per kilometer driven, but most cars don't reach that level yet. Thus, the average car driven for one kilometer (0.6 miles for those in the U.S.) produces as many greenhouse gases as a thousand Google searches."
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