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Re: Carbon emissions of U.S. IT sector more than meets the eye

Sunny D — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:46:18 -0000

I read that it takes more power to show black on your screen than white. Is that true? I'm an electrical engineer and I'm not sure myself.

Check out this sick graph of spending
on the Iraq war Vs. spending on renewable energy

Re: Carbon emissions of U.S. IT sector more than meets the eye

Salman — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:10:45 -0000

I posted an update on my blog...
http://salmanff.blogspot.co...
A couple of academic papers have recently tackled the same subject, showing very high estimates of embodied carbon.
Daniel - the papers I mention are also a good source of info on the subject in general, if you want to dig in more (though they are not free :-( ).
I also have a few related posts on my blog, from Feb 2007. They are probably easier reads, though far less informative. (I was just trying to understand the issues myself.)

Re: Carbon emissions of U.S. IT sector more than meets the eye

Adriana Lima — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:36:54 -0000

I couldn't understand some parts of this article Carbon emissions of U.S. IT sector more than meets the eye, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

Re: Carbon emissions of U.S. IT sector more than meets the eye

Peter Gwynne — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:04:12 -0000

Co2 makes up 38-parts-per-100,000 molecules in the atmosphere.

It would take mankind 5yrs to get to 39-parts.

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