Spam ‘produces 17m tons of CO2’

A study into spam has blamed it for the production of more than 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power more than 2.4m homes.

The Carbon Footprint of e-mail Spam report estimated that 62 trillion spam emails are sent globally every year.

This amounted to emissions of more than 17 million tons of CO2, the research by climate consultants ICF International and anti-virus firm McAfee found.

Searching for legitimate e-mails and deleting spam used some 80% of energy.

The study found that the average business user generates 131kg of CO2 every year, of which 22% is related to spam.

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Bag of Randomness

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  • Sometimes it’s the littlest things in life that makes me happy – such as taking DogGeeding on a car ride and seeing his ears turn into a set of wings.
  • I saw a commercial yesterday for the Dallas U2 concert.  It’s a bit funny that the venue is always referred to as “New Cowboys Stadium.”  I bet a lot of tickets will have that name printed, but I wonder if or when an official name will be announced – sponsor or no sponsor.
  • New political bumper sticker – “I’ll keep my guns and ammo, you can keep the change.”  Hey, that even made me laugh.
  • Old but new politcal bumper stickers – I saw a vehicle with a new shiny W 2004 bumper sticker.  This picture doesn’t do it justice, but I could tell it was just placed on the car.  I made up a story about how that sticker got placed on there.  Basically, someone from The Island time traveled to 2009 but thinks it’s 2003.
  • I’ve taken some bumper sticker pics in the past but have forgotten to post them.  So here’s one that tells you to back off,
  • I think Governor Good Hair got caught up in the moment during his tea party appearance the other day when he hinted toward succeeding.
  • When I get together once a year with my old childhood and college friends for our scholarship meeting, I always feel like they are going to corner me and start an intervention.
  • I like the idea of high speed trains, but I have a feeling the airline industry isn’t fond of the idea.
  • I’m going to miss John Madden, and I’m thankful for the times he helped bring a father and son together.
  • I hope the Cowboys don’t open their new stadium like the Yankees did theirs.
  • I just learned that the Benny Hill music is actually called Yakety Sax.
  • It’s time for me to roadtrip to Abilene.
  • Grace
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Twitter becomes part of the Google empire tomorrow.

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