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Offline Clive

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Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2'
« on: April 19, 2009, 14:32 »
A study into spam has blamed it for the production of more than 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power more than 2.4m homes.

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Re: Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2'
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2009, 17:10 »
Crikey!  Good report.  Something's got to change, as the internet will be unusable in a few years time, if the current trends continue.  :(
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Re: Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2'
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2009, 17:34 »
A charge to send email would seem to be the only solution. :(
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Re: Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2'
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2009, 18:58 »
Brewing beers wines and spirits also produces CO2.  I wonder how much?  It will probably make this figure look like the proverbial drop in the ocean, if that isn't a mixed metaphor too far.
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