Boil a kettle with 2 Google searches!

As concerns for the state of our planet continues to set the news agenda, a new study has published reports that 2 Google searches leaves the same carbon footprint as boiling a kettle. A US Physicist from Harvard University called Alex Wissner-Gross has discovered that a typical Google search on a desktop PC produces around 7g (0.25oz) of Carbon Dioxide, which when doubled equates to the same amount produced when making a cup of tea.

Google have responded by calling the amount of energy used “minimal”, although when you consider that other recent findings have estimated the global IT industry to be generating as much greenhouse gas as the world’s airlines combined – then it’s a sobering thought.

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