Comments on: The Google Carbon Footprint Open Thread

By: zuiko

zuiko — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:36:17 +0000

By: zuiko

zuiko — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:34:44 +0000

Now, not only are you supposed to buy carbon credits for your airfare and hotel stay, you need to include the Google search to find a scammer willing to take your money in exchange for “carbon credits”, the rendering of the carbon credit website, the credit card processing, the extra line on your credit card statement, the calculator you are using to try to figure out all this stuff…

By: 6eorge Jetson

6eorge Jetson — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:02:18 +0000

By: peg_c

peg_c — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:39:08 +0000

I hurt myself laughing and sent it to all my co-workers and family. Then I spent several hours googling continuously to warm up the house (it was 20 here yesterday). If I were a scientist I’d be seriously concerned that the field is rapidly losing all respect with asylum escapees like this doofus pushing the latest idiocy.

By: 6eorge Jetson

6eorge Jetson — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:53:13 +0000

“Econmomical”

ec?on?mom?i?cal? ?[e-kuh-mom-i-kul, ee-kuh-]

–adjective
1. a term simultaneously connoting the misuse of economics, mom-like authoritarian behavior, and comical outcomes
2. pertaining to the sub-optimal, politically constrained production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
3. of or pertaining to the bogus use of the “science” of economics.
4. involving or pertaining to one’s personal resources of money: to give up a good for no good reason.
5. affecting or apt to affect the welfare of material resources: weevils and other economic pests.

By: 6eorge Jetson

6eorge Jetson — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:34:01 +0000

Google Money Engine for Democrats only

By: bs

bs — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:38:59 +0000

By: Chemical Sam

Chemical Sam — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:35:43 +0000

Economists are peculiar people, I must say.

By: Chemical Sam

Chemical Sam — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:34:12 +0000

People do realise that those IT centers are running, air-conditioned, fully operational, and consuming energy at essentially the same rate no matter whether they are being used, or sitting idle, right?

Our physicist-in-One-World-residence making that alarmist point to demonstrate how neglectful of the world people with computers are should be shown the door for being a one-ply-thinking tool. How much energy do you think it would take to drive everyone to the local library instead?

Has anyone at Google considered isolating the Chinese and the Iranians from their Internet networking system, and maintaining and otherwise domestic network? Is Europe’s usage worth the Trans-Atlantic cable? Is it easier to keep servers air-conditioned in Singapore?

Has is occurred to anyone that the more users using the same amount of resources, the smaller the impact per person? Could it be that if more people used the service, Google would be more econmomical? I’d be okay for a delay of a second rather than a millisecond for the results. I need the extra time to blink these days, because of the throughput of complete nonsense passing across my screen.

By: $peciallist

$peciallist — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:51:20 +0000

By: RJD

RJD — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:03:44 +0000

anyone else do that, just aimlessly search for anything that pops into your head on a quiet evening?

By: woodsman

woodsman — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:39:41 +0000

the resulting reduction in CO2 emissions would be worth something. After all, at this time TWC spends almost as much time talking about climate change as weather change right now, so just shut them off and get WeatherBug or some equivalent.

Then you get current weather and save the environment by not listening to the nutballs.

By: Kowalski

Kowalski — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:19:39 +0000

This is why, when I search the internet, I do it by hand.

One web page at a time. With a magnifying glass and a tiny Japanese spy camera.

By: olsmithie

olsmithie — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:10:54 +0000

and I just love trees. Need to run out and hug one , I ‘m just so upset thinking about my poor tree suffocating…

Anybody out there ever had any chemistry?? I can’t believe how ignorant the public is about science.

Unbelievable! that they should be taken in by the carbon crap.

Seriously…

By: mikefisk

mikefisk — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:04:27 +0000

…since the consumption of power per search is partially linked to the volume of searches (as most servers use about half their peak power just idling doing nothing), shouldn’t that mean we use MORE Google searches, and decrease each person’s CO2 emissions per search?

A Green could argue that it’s in the interest of the planet, so long as Google keeps these massive data centers, to keep them as close to capacity as possible…

By: TallChE

TallChE — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:34:32 +0000

We need to make Bill Gates happy and use MSN Live Search instead of that evil CO2 generating Google. That will really solve the problem.

Actually, I’m sure that we will not have to do anything. Anyday now I just know that the Trial Laywer Association will file a class action lawsuit against Al Gore since we all know that he invented the Internet.

By: azaeroprof

azaeroprof — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:13:07 +0000

If Googling generates CO2, and thus causes global warming, it may be the only way to save the planet from our next ice age! C'mon AlGore, we need you to help us save the planet! Where are you on this issue? We certainly aren't capable of saving it ourselves!!

By: Kenny Solomon

Kenny Solomon — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:57:15 +0000

Just in case y’all would care to see my snark to the London Times about this article…….. I sent the following, but I don’t think they printed it….. surprised at that, I’m not.

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“This is a joke right? No? You folks are serious ?

Individual freedom and liberty are in a much more perilous state than I thought.

I’m going to set my computer on an automatic random Google search and let it fly while I go out and boil up some water to fill my swimming pool with hot tea.”

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If y’all feel like it, why don’t you pop over to that article link and cheer ‘em up a bit with a pithy comment or two. After all, being a devout global climate change loon keeps a person kind of depressed.

Cheers !