Tag Archives: environment

update from san diego

29 Oct 2007 – 11:33

I’m back in San Diego after leaving mid-week when UCSD closed as a result of bad air quality from the wildfires. UCSD, La Jolla, and downtown were untouched by the fires, and only indirectly affected due to campus and road closures, and concern for those who were evacuating. Sadly, the community-supported agriculture program where I [...]

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environmental impact of the internet

7 Aug 2007 – 16:16

Second Life has a non-negligible environmental impact! This article from Treehugger reports that the average Second Life avatar consumes as much electricity as the average Brazilian! Daily energy requirements for Second Life’s 4000 servers, hosting ~12,500 avatars at any one time, total 60,000 kilowatt-hours, or 4.8kWh per avatar. Annualized, avatars consume 1,752 kWh, which is [...]

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