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Are Google and Ebay Killing the Environment?
mediadonis.net — CO2 Emissions are the number one reason for the global warming, and the U.S. are by far one of the biggest CO2 emitters in the whole world! Now we internet geeks may think we ´re the good guys, not responsible for any of those emissions, but think again…
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- mwrl, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Buried because global warming isn't caused by humans.
- Twoodge, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2So eBay's entire server housing uses as much CO2 as 50 cars' average mileage? That's not too bad.
And the point about Google changing its homepage from white to black is misleading, as energy usage for only differs on CRTs (as opposed to TFTs) based on colours, which are growing ever more unused. - hankyone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Pullution / Human Ratio is quite small if you put it in perspective
- AmbiWeb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I guess many web-companies that have a high potential to save energy. Google and eBay are not the only ones but they are big players in that business. Google needs lot's of energy when crawling the web but I think the improved crawling a lot with sitemaps and smarter crawling...
- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2How long do we need a total lack of new CRT sales before people drop the white background myth?
If you want a real issue, you could look at people using package shipments to their door rather than higher effeciency bulk shipments to stores.
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