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Saas, low calories and conserving energy

By Dennis Howlett in Editorial

Posted in greentech on June 1, 2008 at 7:06 pm

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Two entirely unrelated posts caught my attention today. Tom Raftery asks whether SaaS saves greenhouse gases. Quick as a flash, Chris Yeh from PBWiki does some back of fag packet calculations and comes up with the startling conclusion:

That means PBwiki could be saving the world up to 585,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year, or the equivalent of driving an SUV around the world 50,000 times!

Tom is sceptical of the assertion, qualifying it to say:

Now, obviously not all 500,000 hosted PBWiki

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Comment by Chris Yeh - June 2, 2008 on 2:17 pm

Dennis,

Don’t forget all the times we’ve been told that exercising regularly increases our metabolism because muscle consumes more energy than fat.

If your metabolism increases, so does your CO2 generation.

Indeed, could it be that the fitness fanatics are actually partially responsible for global warming?

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