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Internet Energy Consumption
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Ruphus
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Internet Energy Consumption
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Lately, on a Canadian environmental documentary it was mentioned what energy merely e-mail traffic takes. Unfortunately, the numbers escaped my mind, but it was sheer mind-blowing. Now, days ago it was mentioned that internet takes equally as much energy to conduct like the world´s civil aviation. Can you imagine that? Just think of the power emitted through the turbines of a single plane ... From what I think to recall there are being 200 000 aircrafts in the air, constantly any time of day and year. Think of the power consumed by 200 000 airplanes in a minute, and how we are causing the same consumption behind our laptops when online. Still hard to envision for me. Lesser even that out of all the up to date, modern way of communicating and informing relies on fossil resource. With google´s and facebook´s servers demanding enormous quantities of electric current these companies entertain their own power stations. Which are based on what? The other point hard to believe: On coal burning. Companies on whom funds literally fall on like out of the blue, with budgets so immense and instant in abundance like never before anywhere ... These days, with all that´s to be known about the global environmental situation ... With a literally self-evident option to set on sustainable energy supply for diverse reasons ... Dismissed the opportunity of planting the internet on a most obvious energy concept, and chose to determine out of all the internet as a giant polluter. Guess the noble glossing tombstone of this planet will be engraved with: "Some could not get enough, ever".
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