Published 1/13/2009
by chris.thompson
at The Big Money
So says the very source of the story, according to TechNewsWorld. Ever since the Sunday Times of London reported that Harvard physicist Alex Wissner-Gross had determined that Google's operations produced shocking amounts of greenhouse gas, the unhappy egghead has been inundated with media calls, asking him to elaborate. Specifically, they asked: is it true that two Google searches produce 7 grams of carbon dioxide, equal to that produced to brew a cup of tea?
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