Sunday, January 11, 2009

performing two Google searches uses up as much energy as boiling the kettle for a cup of tea

Times UK On Line (via Tom Nelson Blog)

Harvard University Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross says that performing two Google searches uses up as much energy as boiling the kettle for a cup of tea. "Googles are very efficient but their primary concern is to make searches fast and that means they have a lot of extra capacity that burns energy," he said.

Let's turn of all the computers in all the climate change offices.

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