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Two Google searches 'produce same CO2 as boiling a kettle'
- cperciva 18y agoSo what? Cycling to work produces more CO2 than boiling a few L of water, too.
- cgranade 18y agoThose figures sound suspect to me, given the immense volume of searches performed on Google. I would guess that there's some double-counting going on. All else aside, figures like those are all derived on the assumption that electricity is produced in a CO2 generating fashion. If we can figure out a better means of power generation, then all of these contributors get better at once.
- astrec 18y agoSounds like rubbish to me, but naively speaking: If a 2000w kettle takes 2 minutes to boil it uses 2000w x (2/60) hrs = 66.67 watt-hours. If a google search requires my laptop at 150w, 10 network appliances at 200w and 10 google servers at 200w and front to back a query takes 1 second then a query uses 4150w x (1/60/60) hrs = 1.16 watt-hours. Or have I got that wrong?
- gravitycop 18y agoThis is basically a dup. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428606 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428606
- gravitycop 18y agoDiscussion of Google's response, here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=430272 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=430272