Two Google Searches Same as Boiling a Kettle
So it seems just as people are worrying about the recession, along come the newspapers with the shocking revelation that every time you use Google you are generating as much CO2 as boiling a kettle. Don’t even think how hot you’d be if you locked yourself in a room with a kettle and turned it on every-time you used Google.
The story was originally published in the Sunday Times, and is currently in a state of perpetuity, with Google rebuffing the kettle boiling estimate of 7g, down to 0.2g, and with Alex Wissner-Gross a physicist from Harvard University stating “Various experts put forward carbon emission estimates for such a search of 1g-10g depending on the time involved and the equipment used”. The full story can be read here.
