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Fw: pausing to think



Got this link from another class and thought I would forward it.
dan
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Dan Green
PC Administrator / Webmaster
Physics and Astronomy Department
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
corbeau@physics.unc.edu
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Marchionini" <march@ils.unc.edu>
To: "'inls180-02@ils.unc.edu'" <inls180-02@ruby.ils.unc.edu>;
"'inls210-89@ils.unc.edu'" <inls210-89@ruby.ils.unc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 10:28 AM
Subject: pausing to think


> environmentalists estimate that it takes a pound of coal burned to send
2MB
> of data over the Internet.  A bllion PCs on the Internet will require
energy
> equivalent to the ENTIRE energy consumed in the US today.  hmmmmmm
> for more, see
> http://www.greeningearthsociety.org/Articles/1999/internet.htm
>
>