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[Skip Huffman]

On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 01:23:14 +0100, David Gaskill wrote:

>In any case this list is only peripherally concerned with PMMail and 
>mostly devotes itself to matters of much greater importance such as the 
>acceleration of global-warming caused by html e-mail. 

You know, we could calculate that....

Each message grows by X bytes.  

It takes an average of Y milliwatts of electricity to deliver
one byte of email.

Z can equal the average number of emails transmitted per hour,
worldwide.

According to the US Department of energy:

1.341 pounds of CO2 are emitted  each Kilowatt-hour of
electricity generated in the US.

So HTML email produces (((X*Y*Z)/10^6)*1.341) extra pounds of
CO2 in the acmosphere each hour of each day.  I cannot find a
definitive resource for the exact effect of those extra pounds
of CO2 on actual global warming.

Gee.  That was fun. <grin>

--
Skip Huffman, Support Technician, Carreker Corp.
Husband of Josie Lawson, SAG actor on stike.
Screen Actor's Guild is on strike against advertiser's proposed
"Play without Pay" contract, effectively a 60%+ pay cut..  



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