Comments on: What is your Carbon Footprint when using the Internet? http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/11/what-is-your-carbon-footprint-when-using-the-internet/ Fresh Thinking on IT Operations Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:48:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: solar for home http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/11/what-is-your-carbon-footprint-when-using-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-1092 solar for home Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:18:09 +0000 http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=847#comment-1092 Thats a very good question. if this figures go be right, then we are polluting the environment at a rate we cant sustain. Thats a very good question. if this figures go be right, then we are polluting the environment at a rate we cant sustain.

]]> By: This blog post uses up about 8km in a Prius | Mobile News http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/11/what-is-your-carbon-footprint-when-using-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-233 This blog post uses up about 8km in a Prius | Mobile News Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:29:18 +0000 http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=847#comment-233 [...] O’Donnell over at The Hot Aisle calculates that the amount of CO2 required to post a blog on blogs.sun.com (as a worked example) is the [...] [...] O’Donnell over at The Hot Aisle calculates that the amount of CO2 required to post a blog on blogs.sun.com (as a worked example) is the [...]

]]> By: This blog post uses up about 8km in a Prius : Mobile Industry Review http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/11/what-is-your-carbon-footprint-when-using-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-232 This blog post uses up about 8km in a Prius : Mobile Industry Review Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:03:22 +0000 http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=847#comment-232 [...] O’Donnell over at The Hot Aisle calculates that the amount of CO2 required to post a blog on blogs.sun.com (as a worked example) is the [...] [...] O’Donnell over at The Hot Aisle calculates that the amount of CO2 required to post a blog on blogs.sun.com (as a worked example) is the [...]

]]> By: thehotaisle http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/11/what-is-your-carbon-footprint-when-using-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-766 thehotaisle Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:30:23 +0000 http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=847#comment-766 Rolf blogs in German so here is a translation of some of the calculations that get to the equivalent of a 7.6KM car journey for a blog entry:<br><br>As an example, this is how I calculated the surpisingly high blog post on <a href="http://blogs.sun.com" rel="nofollow">blogs.sun.com</a> number:<br><br>We are hosting 66183 blogs in 3 years, running on two T2000 (the best servers you can get when it comes to power efficiency).<br><br>A pair of Sun Fire T2000 servers draws 2*320Watts. Double that number for cooling and infrastructure, so you need 33628KWh in three years. That's 0.5KWh for every blog! One KWh electral power created in a coal power plant creates 1700 grams of CO2 - so the global warming effect of this blog is comparable to a runner running 21 kilometers (or sitting in front of his computer for one whole day).<br><br>Steve Rolf blogs in German so here is a translation of some of the calculations that get to the equivalent of a 7.6KM car journey for a blog entry:

As an example, this is how I calculated the surpisingly high blog post on blogs.sun.com number:

We are hosting 66183 blogs in 3 years, running on two T2000 (the best servers you can get when it comes to power efficiency).

A pair of Sun Fire T2000 servers draws 2*320Watts. Double that number for cooling and infrastructure, so you need 33628KWh in three years. That's 0.5KWh for every blog! One KWh electral power created in a coal power plant creates 1700 grams of CO2 – so the global warming effect of this blog is comparable to a runner running 21 kilometers (or sitting in front of his computer for one whole day).

Steve

]]> By: thehotaisle http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/10/11/what-is-your-carbon-footprint-when-using-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-231 thehotaisle Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:30:23 +0000 http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=847#comment-231 Rolf blogs in German so here is a translation of some of the calculations that get to the equivalent of a 7.6KM car journey for a blog entry:<br><br>As an example, this is how I calculated the surpisingly high blog post on <a href="http://blogs.sun.com">blogs.sun.com</a> number:<br><br>We are hosting 66183 blogs in 3 years, running on two T2000 (the best servers you can get when it comes to power efficiency).<br><br>A pair of Sun Fire T2000 servers draws 2*320Watts. Double that number for cooling and infrastructure, so you need 33628KWh in three years. That's 0.5KWh for every blog! One KWh electral power created in a coal power plant creates 1700 grams of CO2 - so the global warming effect of this blog is comparable to a runner running 21 kilometers (or sitting in front of his computer for one whole day).<br><br>Steve Rolf blogs in German so here is a translation of some of the calculations that get to the equivalent of a 7.6KM car journey for a blog entry:

As an example, this is how I calculated the surpisingly high blog post on blogs.sun.com number:

We are hosting 66183 blogs in 3 years, running on two T2000 (the best servers you can get when it comes to power efficiency).

A pair of Sun Fire T2000 servers draws 2*320Watts. Double that number for cooling and infrastructure, so you need 33628KWh in three years. That's 0.5KWh for every blog! One KWh electral power created in a coal power plant creates 1700 grams of CO2 – so the global warming effect of this blog is comparable to a runner running 21 kilometers (or sitting in front of his computer for one whole day).

Steve

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