Tuesday, December 08, 2009

It takes tone of coal burnt to power a personal computer for one full year

Coal.
Thus, one billion tons of coal burnt each year for world wide computing?
Train long 100 million meters or 100K kilometers. Two and half times wrapped around the Earth equator.
And we are stil not sure where is the climate warming coming from ?
Estimates for specific emission from nuclear power, hydro, and wind energy vary, but are about 100 times lower, see environmental effects of nuclear power. CO2 released is the atmosphere thermal blanket . Thus next year needs much less computing power only to retain the same global temperature.

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