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Tomás Cano Binder, CT 
Spain
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Damian Harrison wrote:
With you all the way on that one Tomás.
But exploring how could we could make the internet more energy efficient wouldn't hurt that much, would it? |
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Yes, in fact it would be great. But let companies research and try things to reduce their expense in energy. I am sure most of us have translated about companies who are making efforts to become more energy-efficient. It's a powerful trend today. Energy costs must be huge for companies like Google or Microsoft, and the topic of this post was the fact that they were looking for cool places to put their systems and save energy. Most companies are doing that already, and I am sure all of us do it at home.
No tax or toll on Internet is needed to save energy! It's like trying to save the whale by imposing a tax on sardines. 
| | | | Daniel Bird
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:24
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| | Energy efficiency... | Jul 18, 2008 |
/rant
Somewhere out there an academic is earning a pension by logic-chopping her way to an argument that "proves" that an increasingly sedentary way of working in the west (e.g. one heavily assisted by the net) cuts energy use in other areas so massively that the increased power consumption is negligible, if not zero. As long as this kind of trade-off remains unquantifiable by anything but quack science, I believe the debate is meaningless (but still informative - for instance, who would have guessed that Finland was home to the world's only surviving fan of taxation? There's an endangered species for the doommongers.)
Global warming? No surprise since according to many sources, we're only just emerging from the Ice Age.
Extinction of mankind? Will the termites miss us..?
rant/
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