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pcworld.com - 1/14/2009
Google disputes Harvard Fellow's pollution estimate
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PC World: The carbon footprint of a search query is nowhere near the estimate concluded by a Harvard academic, Google said late Sunday. British newspaper The Sunday Times published a story on Sunday with results from a study conducted by Alex Wissner-Gross, a physicist who estimates a Google ...

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businessgreen.com - 1/22/2009
Khosla shuns CCS in favour of coal-to-cement
— businessgreen.com — Business Green: A new breed of carbon capture technologies capable of turning CO2 emissions into cement could soon provide a cost effective alternative to high profile, but as yet unproven, carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems, according to one of ... (more) Khosla shuns CCS in favour of coal-to-cement

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BBC NEWS | UK | Oceans are 'soaking up less CO2'
news.bbc.co.uk - 1/15/2009
BBC NEWS | UK | Oceans are 'soaking up less CO2'
— news.bbc.co.uk — The amount of carbon dioxide being absorbed by the world's oceans has reduced, scientists have said. University of East Anglia researchers gauged CO2 absorption through more than 90,000 measurements from merchant ships equipped with automatic ... (more) BBC NEWS | UK | Oceans are 'soaking up less CO2'

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Google Disputes Reported Carbon Footprint of Typical Google Search
environmentalleader.com - 1/13/2009
Google Disputes Reported Carbon Footprint of Typical Google Search
— environmentalleader.com — U.S. physicist Alex Wissner-Gross claims that a typical Google search on a desktop computer produces about 7 grams of CO2. However, Google disputes the figures and says a typical search produced only 0.2 grams of CO2, BBC reports. The Harvard ... (more) Google Disputes Reported Carbon Footprint of Typical ...

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Google sans eco-guilt, or how web research reduces carbon emissions
green LA girl — ... Madrigal calculates that Google’s responsible for just 0.2 or 0.006 percent of the U.S. carbon footprint, depending on what numbers you use (Google quickly questioned the original numbers about its own carbon footprint; the scientists who put out the original numbers also specified that their numbers were calculated ...

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