Green-minded Google Search Energy Consumption Wins Acclaims From Harvard University

Green-minded Google Gets Red-faced Over Search Energy Consumption Claims

OK; if Google is doing anything other than glowing Red from gleeful embarassement then they should.  Because that amount of energy — even on the high end of 10 g/search — is nothing; nada; zip!  Even when multiplied by the millions of searches every, ..  however often.  Replace that with the amount it would otherwise require to get in your car, drive through traffic to the library, the amount of energy used by the library itself, the time it takes to search through card files, or yet more computers with electronic card cataloging, ordering the books from inter-library exchange, driving back home, driving back to the library again to get your remaining research books, performing the research, getting back into the car and driving to the library to return the research materials, and then, finally, repeating the process “n” number of times with other libraries, newspapers, magazines, etc.

The truth is that you will produce more carbon dioxide from breathing during the time it takes you to just drive to library, not including the amont I’ll create from the car itself.

Nope; I’d say that if Google can increase the speed and quality of their searches by spending 100x more persearch, I say, “Yes!”