Friday, January 28, 2011

Please consider the environment before printing this email!

Today's irony: Some people have an email signature that includes an image of a recycling symbol and the line "Please consider the environment before printing this email! Thank you" In a case at hand, that image added 3,297 bytes to the message, which had 118 bytes of true content.

I wonder what the worldwide daily total carbon footprint of all those little recycling images is.

1 comment:

Gentle Soul said...

I just read an article that supercomputer designers typically work with the metric of 70 pJoule per operation.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/nextgeneration-supercomputers/0

I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to plug in the appropriate query to Wolfram Alpha.