much of the world's electricity comes from burning fossil fuels like coal and natural gas...many argue that the power plants used for making electricity contribute to global warming...is this true? and if so, is it possible to reduce the contribution the internet makes to global warming?
2006-12-26 10:12:39 · 9 answers · asked by Christopher E 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
there are the computers we view the internet on, and there are the servers that host sites like yahoo answers, what about the yahoos, googles, ebays, etc. of the world?
2006-12-26 10:29:55 · update #1
quite this is a good question. Production of electricity as needs the basic fuel definately contribute for the global warming. The volume of global warm the individual plant contributing is to be assessed scientifically.This is done individually for each plant in different places of the world and as in accumulation the total gases released that contributing to global warming is arrived.
If your question is pertaining to the data transfer from computer to computer through servers and backbones , i do not think if any glabal warming is caused with the type of waves transmitted through internet. However the heat generated by each computer per hour is to be calculated and is multiplied by the number of computer per unit area and as a whole the contribution to global warming can be calculated if at all a computer is causing...
A mandatory rule as a drafting can be passes through the environmental authorities of various countries , that each company or establishment should provide the number of computers it is using every year so that the global warming contribution can be calculated from these companies and some sess or tax can be collected for growth of plants or counter action.
2006-12-26 13:01:18 · answer #1 · answered by radarboy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carbon dioxide has never in recorded historic previous led to warming, somewhat the different in actuality, Co2 is a results of warming. via the way, the planet isn't warming, and hasn't been for 10yrs or so.
2016-10-28 10:24:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Either do some real research (how 'real' is Global Warming - what are the ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC measurements/theories/results ? why do some groups/reporters lie about it ?) or go do something that matters (if you are a kid, go see if you can help your parents (even sorting the trash is more useful than worrying about Global Warming) ..
2007-01-02 23:21:27 · answer #3 · answered by Steve B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The internet itself wont be doing anything.. HOWEVER the massive amounts of power used in datacentres all the extra servers and PC's being used around the globe will have indirect effects as they consume massive amounts of power.
Power that needs to be generated by burning fossil fuels.
Thus contributing.
Oh and to reduce this inpact you need to use lower power computers / servers / routers etc etc.
Intel & AMD etc are all activly doing this by making their chips etc run on lower power and perform better.
Hope this helps.
However i can hear a huge can o worms opening somewhere.
2006-12-26 10:19:32 · answer #4 · answered by Funky G 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To start Christopher.....Global warming is an absolute myth, so therefore, your 'puter does nothing to elevate the non existent theory of "Global Warming"!
2006-12-26 13:33:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the internet is an intangible idea lol it doesnt contribute to global warming...
2006-12-26 10:16:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
there is no such thing as global warming. We are not doing anything.
2006-12-26 10:16:44 · answer #7 · answered by writemejamie 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Hello, Hello.
2006-12-26 10:17:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
thats bascially all there is to that
2006-12-26 10:23:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋