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Old 13th January 2009, 22:46   #1 (permalink)

 
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Global IT industry generates as much greenhouse gas as world's airlines?
PPRuNers doubly damned.

Hidden harm of Google searches
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Old 13th January 2009, 22:49   #2 (permalink)
 
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May I post this fantastic response from those fine IT fellows at The Register... we are, they say, ignoring the true enemy within...
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Old 13th January 2009, 22:56   #3 (permalink)
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No. Read: Revealed: The Times Made Up That Stuff About Google And The Tea Kettles

edit: and Technology News: Green Tech: Harvard Physicist Sets Record Straight on Internet Carbon Study
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Confusers is next door.
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Apparantly if you have a 32" flat screen telly,a Wii and a ps3 then the running costs can account for 20% of your leccy bill..
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The Palace of Westminster is the largest polluter. Often referred to by London cabbies as 'The Gas chamber'
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Excellent link there Bea; clearly aviating ppruners are thrice damned!

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