Comments on: Is Googling Bad For the Environment? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/12/is-googling-bad-for-the-environment/ Quirky, funny, and surprising science news from the edge of the known universe. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:42:05 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Luke http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/12/is-googling-bad-for-the-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-21123 Luke Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:01:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/12/is-googling-bad-for-the-environment/#comment-21123 Ugh. Shut up you stupid hippies. You hurt progress, you lie, you distort. SHUT UP. Just for this, I'm googling "environment sucks" 100 times. Ugh. Shut up you stupid hippies. You hurt progress, you lie, you distort. SHUT UP.

Just for this, I’m googling “environment sucks” 100 times.

]]> By: Miriam Gordon http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/12/is-googling-bad-for-the-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-20643 Miriam Gordon Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:42:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/12/is-googling-bad-for-the-environment/#comment-20643 Thank you for this article, its very interesting. I'm glad to see the scientific community being continually conscious about their CO2 footprints - it's important to keep reminding ourselves, it's the only way we as a global community will change our energy consumption ways. I'm not completely sure that any mega-corporation can completely circumvent evil... I really love the image at the header of this post and would like to use it. Would it be possible to get back to me and let me know what the copyright status is? Thanks very much. Thank you for this article, its very interesting. I’m glad to see the scientific community being continually conscious about their CO2 footprints – it’s important to keep reminding ourselves, it’s the only way we as a global community will change our energy consumption ways.

I’m not completely sure that any mega-corporation can completely circumvent evil…

I really love the image at the header of this post and would like to use it. Would it be possible to get back to me and let me know what the copyright status is? Thanks very much.

]]> By: scienceTASTIC http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/12/is-googling-bad-for-the-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-20621 scienceTASTIC Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:50:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/12/is-googling-bad-for-the-environment/#comment-20621 "Besides, isn’t online searching greener than driving to the library?" True, but if there was no internet I would never drive to the library to find out the name of that rollerblading movie in the 90's with Seth Green and Jack Black. (So you can sleep tonight... it's Airborne.) “Besides, isn’t online searching greener than driving to the library?” True, but if there was no internet I would never drive to the library to find out the name of that rollerblading movie in the 90’s with Seth Green and Jack Black. (So you can sleep tonight… it’s Airborne.)

]]> By: Elizabeth, V. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/12/is-googling-bad-for-the-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-20455 Elizabeth, V. Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:39:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/12/is-googling-bad-for-the-environment/#comment-20455 It is true that the google searches start to add up but what can we really do about it?? People rely on google troughtout the world. It is true that the google searches start to add up but what can we really do about it?? People rely on google troughtout the world.

]]> By: Jen Hawse http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/12/is-googling-bad-for-the-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-20448 Jen Hawse Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:45:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/12/is-googling-bad-for-the-environment/#comment-20448 An alternative to google, www.blackle.com This color swapped black on white text google powered search engine uses less power on your computers side of things, even if it pulls from the same few thousand servers. An alternative to google, http://www.blackle.com This color swapped black on white text google powered search engine uses less power on your computers side of things, even if it pulls from the same few thousand servers.

]]> By: jf http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/12/is-googling-bad-for-the-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-20446 jf Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:20:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/12/is-googling-bad-for-the-environment/#comment-20446 Wissner-Gross, says he never mentions Google in the study: <a href="http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/65794.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/65794.html</a> Wissner-Gross, says he never mentions Google in the study:
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/65794.html

]]> By: scienceweblog http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/12/is-googling-bad-for-the-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-20440 scienceweblog Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:10:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/12/is-googling-bad-for-the-environment/#comment-20440 haha,It is interesting! haha,It is interesting!

]]> By: Uncle Al http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/12/is-googling-bad-for-the-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-20438 Uncle Al Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:54:48 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/12/is-googling-bad-for-the-environment/#comment-20438 Google runs 200 million searches/day for a claimed contingent 511,000 tonnes of CO2/year. Anthropogenic CO2 emissions sum to 28 billion metric tonnes/year. Google devastates Earth with a 0.0018% increment, worst case. (Does hydroelectric power emit 7 g CO2/search? "Project 02") We demand the Google Algaeic Fuel Fix (GAFF). http://www.eia.doe.gov/bookshelf/brochures/greenhouse/images/fig1.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform#Project_02 http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal//flat.htm The Carbon Tax on Everything, philosophized. Google runs 200 million searches/day for a claimed contingent 511,000 tonnes of CO2/year. Anthropogenic CO2 emissions sum to 28 billion metric tonnes/year. Google devastates Earth with a 0.0018% increment, worst case. (Does hydroelectric power emit 7 g CO2/search? “Project 02″) We demand the Google Algaeic Fuel Fix (GAFF).

http://www.eia.doe.gov/bookshelf/brochures/greenhouse/images/fig1.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform#Project_02
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal//flat.htm
The Carbon Tax on Everything, philosophized.

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