Frankie Roberto wrote:

> Incidentally, the news story mentions that Alex Wissner-Gross, who
> calculated the figures, has set up the website
> http://www.co2stats.com/ which is a *commercial* service that allows
> you to pay to offset the carbon produced by your webservers, so call
> me cynical, but he perhaps has a vested interest in talking up the
> carbon costs of the web... Amongsts the 'benefits' of his service
> (http://www.co2stats.com/benefits.php), he even lists 'increase the
> time your visitors and customers spend on your website' (err, how does
> that reduce carbon footprint) and 'get link traffic from other green
> websites' (at best this is useless, at worst it's a link farm).

This is exactly what I thought when I read the article, it didn't
actually have to mention his website but the minute I got to the
inclusion of it I dismissed it as advertising.


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