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Google Disputes Reported Carbon Footprint of Typical Google Search

NaturalPath Media - found this 1/13/2009 on 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 academic argues that theses carbon emissions come ...