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Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jun 22 21:35:18 PDT 1999


A couple of weeks ago, Ted Byfield posted a link to a Forbes magazine article on how energy-intensive computers are. The article claimed that every megabyte of data transferred on the net burned about half a pound of coal. This list transferred 1,855 megabytes last month, or almost half a ton of coal. Gee whiz.

Doug



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