Green Facts and Statistics
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* '''The total electricity use of home computers in the UK has doubled between 2000 and 2005.''' ''(Market Transformation Programme)'' [[Why WFH isn't always so green (4-Jul-07)|<>]] + [http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39167743,00.htm|><] | * '''The total electricity use of home computers in the UK has doubled between 2000 and 2005.''' ''(Market Transformation Programme)'' [[Why WFH isn't always so green (4-Jul-07)|<>]] + [http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39167743,00.htm|><] | ||
* '''In 2005 more than 9% of the total UK domestic electricity bill was due to computers and their peripherals.''' ''(Market Transformation Programme)'' [[Why WFH isn't always so green (4-Jul-07)|<>]] + [http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39167743,00.htm|><] | * '''In 2005 more than 9% of the total UK domestic electricity bill was due to computers and their peripherals.''' ''(Market Transformation Programme)'' [[Why WFH isn't always so green (4-Jul-07)|<>]] + [http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39167743,00.htm|><] | ||
| - | * '''The manufacture of a single PC needs 1.7 tonnes of materials, including the consumption of more than 10 times its own weight in fossil fuels.''' ''(Professors Rudiger Kuerh and Eric Williams, United Nations University in Tokyo)'' [[Don't recycle your computer - reuse it instead (9-Aug-07)|<>]] + [http://www.whatpc.co.uk/computing/analysis/2196211/recycle-computer-reuse-instead|><] | + | * '''The manufacture of a single PC needs 1.7 tonnes of materials, including the consumption of more than 10 times its own weight in fossil fuels.''' |
| + | ** 75% of a PC's fossil fuel consumption has already happened before the computer is ever switched on. ''(Professors Rudiger Kuerh and Eric Williams, United Nations University in Tokyo)'' [[Don't recycle your computer - reuse it instead (9-Aug-07)|<>]] + [http://www.whatpc.co.uk/computing/analysis/2196211/recycle-computer-reuse-instead|><] | ||
=Forecasts= | =Forecasts= | ||
==IT and Energy Consumption== | ==IT and Energy Consumption== | ||
* '''By 2020, entertainment, computers and gadgets will account for 45% of electricity used in UK homes.''' ''(Energy Saving Trust)'' [[Why WFH isn't always so green (4-Jul-07)|<>]] + [http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39167743,00.htm|><] | * '''By 2020, entertainment, computers and gadgets will account for 45% of electricity used in UK homes.''' ''(Energy Saving Trust)'' [[Why WFH isn't always so green (4-Jul-07)|<>]] + [http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39167743,00.htm|><] | ||
Revision as of 01:05, 18 September 2007
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Today and Earlier
IT and CO2 Emissions
- IT accounts for 2% of CO2 emissions globally—the same as the aviation industry. (Gartner 2007) <> + ><
IT and Energy Consumption
- IT accounts for around 2% to 3% of energy consumption in the UK. (EITLT) <> + (Computergram Jul-07)
- America's servers consumed about 61 billion kilowatt-hours of juice in 2006—about 1.5% of total electricity consumption in the country.
- Servers ate about as much electricity as all of the colour televisions in the country. This is about twice the amount of electricity that servers and data centres consumed in 2000. (EPA) <> + (Computergram Aug-07)
- The total electricity use of home computers in the UK has doubled between 2000 and 2005. (Market Transformation Programme) <> + ><
- In 2005 more than 9% of the total UK domestic electricity bill was due to computers and their peripherals. (Market Transformation Programme) <> + ><
- The manufacture of a single PC needs 1.7 tonnes of materials, including the consumption of more than 10 times its own weight in fossil fuels.
