How much CO2 does one Google search produce? How much for one EBAY auction or for a SecondLife avatar, or running one blog like http://www.thehotaisle.com? How do our activities on the Internet compare to driving our car? The answers might surprise you……
Fellow blogger Rolf Kersten pulled together some quite surprising numbers:
|
Web service |
CO2 emission |
Same emission as |
| One Google search | 6.8 grams | 56 meters with the Prius or running 170 meters |
| One EBAY auction | 55 grams | 420 meters with the Prius or running 1275 meters |
| A SecondLife avatar, 24hrs „alive“ for one year | 332 kilograms | 2734 kilometers with the Prius or (as a human) just living for one year |
| One blog post on blogs.sun.com | 850 grams | 7.6 kilometers with the Prius or running half a marathon |
The results are based on calculating the total amount of energy required to run each companies server farm (converted to CO2) divided by the total number of transactions.






















