About Anything » green http://www.alstevens.org The personal blog of Al Stevens. Focus is overrated. Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:18:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Carbon Cost of a Google Search http://www.alstevens.org/2009/01/12/carbon-cost-of-a-google-search/ http://www.alstevens.org/2009/01/12/carbon-cost-of-a-google-search/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:03:22 +0000 Al Stevens http://www.alstevens.org/?p=120 Harvard physicist Alex Wissner-Gross claims that a typical Google search on a desktop computer produces about 7g CO2.

However, these figures were disputed by Google, who say in the official Google Blog that “one Google search is equivalent to about 0.2 grams of CO2″.

The complete story is on the BBC Website: ‘Carbon cost’ of Google revealed.

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