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Computer to calculate climate change -- has huge carbon footprint!
From Times Online
January 17, 2009
A new £33m machine purchased to calculate how climate change will affect Britain, 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.
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