tonnage

[Lisa & Ian Murray]

Yeah, but the New Economy geeks will tell you coal is just bytes in
disguise, so why worry 'cause space-time itself is just one big Turing
Machine!

ian


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 9:35 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: tonnage
>
>
> 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
>