On Monday 16 July 2007 20:51, Richard Davey wrote: > Someone ought to create a 'carbon footprint per email sent' > calculator. Total up how much energy is literally wasted in the > transmission (and consequent receiving) of just one message. I bet if > you add it all up it'd put a printed book, which afterall *can* come > from a sustainable resource, into perspective.
I think no matter which way you dice it, sending 1 email is a lot more energy efficient than printing 1 book. Just because the tree itself is renewable, the *energy* used in cutting it down, turning it into paper, turning the paper into a book and all the transporting in between, is most likely not renewable. -- Crayon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
