Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2'

[Murder he Wrote]

Well here's something interesting I just picked up on my daily news round.

Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2'

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.

The Carbon Footprint of e-mail Spam report estimated that 62 trillion spam emails are sent globally every year.

This amounted to emissions of more than 17 million tons of CO2, the research by climate consultants ICF International and anti-virus firm McAfee found.

Searching for legitimate e-mails and deleting spam used some 80% of energy.

The study found that the average business user generates 131kg of CO2 every year, of which 22% is related to spam.

Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8001749.stm

So what do you make of this?

 

[Dylan]

But there was some progress
http://www.it-online.co.za/content/view/546382/129/

 

[Murder he Wrote]

But there was some progress
http://www.it-online.co.za/content/view/546382/129/

Interesting article, however it was posted in November of last year which would suggest that it has no effect on the BBC's report. ~neutral~

Similarly, earlier this year Google were accused of excessive CO2 emissions following claims that two searches produced as much carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle. Full story here if anyone's interested in that.

 

[Dylan]

Yes I heard that and I make over 50 a day.

 

[CyberFreak]

This is another reason to track down these idiot spammers -evil-

 

[Rich Edmonds]

Too be honest, MaCrappy or Synamshit will do anything to get moresubscribers.