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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAccording to Mike Berners-Lee, a professor in the environment Centre at Lancaster University<\/a> \u201cWhen you press send it goes through the network, and it takes electricity to run the network. This latest research reckons Brits send more than 64m unnecessary emails every day, if every adult in the UK sent one fewer “pointless\u201d email a day we would save more than 16,000 tonnes of carbon a year, or taking around 3,300 diesel cars off the road. At green ISP \/ Green WebHost we try to advise our customers of “good email practice and maintenance”, we limit mailbox size and sending limits etc, not only to make the systems rune more effectively, to cut down on server and CPU use, in turn cutting down on energy use and Carbon Emissions (which we offset if not hosted in one of our solar or geo\/hydro servers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n About the research: Links: https:\/\/www.siliconrepublic.com\/enterprise\/prof-mike-berners-lee-warns-against-environmental-impact-of-pointless-emails<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s going to end up being stored on the cloud somewhere, and those data centres use a lot of electricity. We don\u2019t think about it because we can\u2019t see the smoke coming out of our computers, but the carbon footprint of IT is huge and growing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course these figures are only crude measurements but none the less an important observation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Research conducted by expert survey consultants, Censuswide<\/a>. Using a sample of 3,000 nationally representative British adults (16+), the research was conducted between 14.11.19 – 17.11.19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n