Stop Breathing - Save the planet, or Google
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009The CO2 Inquisition has found and trialed another heretic. Are you stting down? Please note the following is not absurd fiction, but the result of dedicated scientific research.
It’s Google.
Apparently, a search on Google produces 7g of Carbon Dioxide. The CO2 footprint originates in data centers where disk drives are spinning, fans blowing, etc, etc.
Oh man, how future generations will look back at this and shake their heads. Just bear with me for a second here:
The average human CO2 footprint is 900-1000g per day. But, if you excercise, you produce much more.
Carbon Dioxide Emission per Person (m3/h) cu metres/hour
- Sleep 0.013
- Resting or low activity work 0.02
- Normal work 0.08 - 0.13
- Hard work 0.33 - 0.38
So, let’s say when jogging you produce at least 10 times more CO2 than when resting (planet killing joggers!)
Your normal CO2 footprint in an hour would be about 40g, but by running for an hour you actually produced 400g. Are you stupid? You could have googled 51 times and produced the same amount of planet killing gas.
51 things you could have learned, instead of just… being a human being doing human being things.
Kids, you heard it here first. If this ridiculous CO2 witch-hunt nonsense doesn’t stop soon, someone will sooner or later propose a tax on jogging, or we’ll at least feel bad about ourselves for not lying perfectly still on the floor, breathing slowly.