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Offline LC EFA

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Britain's Met office takes action on global warming
« on: January 21, 2009, 08:19:58 PM »
Britain's Met office takes action on global warming :

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Met Office forecasts a supercomputer embarrassment
A new £33m machine purchased to calculate how climate change will affect Britain, has a giant carbon footprint of its own

Jonathan Leake, Science and Environment Editor

For the Met Office the forecast is considerable embarrassment. It has spent £33m on a new supercomputer to calculate how climate change will affect Britain – only to find the new machine has a giant carbon footprint of its own.

“The new supercomputer, which will become operational later this year, will emit 14,400 tonnes of CO2 a year,” said Dave Britton, the Met Office’s chief press officer. This is equivalent to the CO2 emitted by 2,400 homes – generating an average of six tonnes each a year.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5536973.ece

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Re: Britain's Met office takes action on global warming
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2009, 09:39:21 PM »
Damn, a wood-burning computer.  What will those clever Brit eco-boffins come up with next???

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Re: Britain's Met office takes action on global warming
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2009, 10:42:36 AM »
How the hell does a comp emit CO2???  Friggin idjits. (yes I know the "making" of it is HORRIBLE  :whatever:)
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Re: Britain's Met office takes action on global warming
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2009, 05:55:53 PM »
Quote from: Wineslob on January 22, 2009, 10:42:36 AM
How the hell does a comp emit CO2???  Friggin idjits. (yes I know the "making" of it is HORRIBLE  :whatever:)

Computer that big, and the cooling plant it requires suck a lot of juice.
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