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Unread 22 Mar 2006, 11:03   #14
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Re: BBC climate change
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Originally Posted by Ragnarak
Each day, about 23 times more energy will be spent boiling water for tea in the United Kingdom than would be used by the computers involved in the climateprediction.net project. More seriously, a rough calculation suggests that 100,000 computers running 24hrs/day for one year at a power consumption of 50W will contribute approximately 0.0001% of the total amount of CO2 generated in one year. This is not an insignificant amount, but seems (to us) a worthwhile investment to better understand the climate system.

apparently even just leaving things in standby uses up a couple of powerstations worth of emissions every year.
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