How much electricity is consumed by sending a a short e-mail?

Answer 1

no additional energy is consumed. the computer and the circuits are always active and using electricity. sending an email merely causes a change in state of the electrical signals.

Answer 2

It all depends on you and how you use email. Those before me said that it uses no more electricity than not sending an email. That is true if you leave your computer on along with lights in the room and such. To determine how much energy it takes to send an email find out what the consumption of power is for your computer, modem and monitor. If you use other appliances in the room, such as lamps and AC, for the time you send the email, you should include that as well.

To figure energy consumption for sending a short email, calculate how much time you run your computer and all the other stuff you run for the amount of time you need to send the email. Express it in hours then you can find the wattage per hour by multiplying the time with the number of watts from all the appliances together.

Answer 3

I don't know, but I do know how much my electric bill has gone up in the past few years because of technology! With all the chargers for cell phones, computers, speakers, security systems, TV's....it's just crazy; I have been turning off, at the very least all the computers, got low voltage night lights, and am doing a challenge to cut back and save $$$$$.

Answer 4

You'd have to add up all the electricty used by all the servers and network hardware that participated in the delivery of your message, and divide that amount by the volume of data handled by those machines during the time taken to deliver your email message to obtain a cost per unit of data. Then you could calculate the fraction of that data that your email message uses, then figure the actual cost.

A more practial answer is: "a little bit".

Answer 5

That's an impossible question to really answer, because it depends on your computer, how you connect to the network, and how many routers (or hops) there are between your computer and your mail server. Then the mailserver has to store the email until it can successfully communicate with the other mail server, and then it goes through a bunch of hops again, to be delivered on the receipient mailserver. Then that mailserver must store it until the person receiving the email checks their mail, then it's delivered again!

I'm out of breath...lot of factors involved!

Answer 6

Nothing. Your using someone elses server.

Answer 7

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