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Spam Emails: the SUVs of the Internet

The Economist reports:

“According to a report from an environmental consultancy… some 62 trillion unsolicited e-mails were sent in 2008, using 33 terawatt hours of electricity. That is equivalent to the energy consumed by 1.5m American homes or 3.1m cars over a year. If generated by coal-fired power stations it would release 17m tonnes of carbon dioxide, some 0.2% of global emissions of this greenhouse gas.” 

(Via notentirely.)

June 15, 2009

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