• Google Search yields harmful CO2 emissions along with helpful results

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    Ouch! Didn’t realize that every time I resorted to Google search, I was harming my environment simultaneously. As a blogger I resort to search engines to dig out more information and I swear by Google Search as it is the quickest and trusted source. But recently Harvard University physicist Alex Wissner-Gross has bought Google under a not-so-green limelight. According to his study, conducting two Google searches can have as much of an impact on the environment as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea. He has sufficient statistics to prove this statement. To be precise, a typical search query generates about 7g of CO2 while boiling a kettle generates about 15g. And if you multiply this with the estimated 200 million daily internet searches all over the globe, the final figures haunt our existence on this green-blue planet.


    However Google counters this blame by stating that the new efficiency standards for computers could cut power consumption by the equivalent of 10 to 20 coal-fired plants by 2010.
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    Posted in Topics:Awareness and Hype, Tags: , on January 12, 2009