Part of our job at EcoSynergy is to keep abreast of breaking news and research that could inform your carbon footprint. In the process we come across a variety of interesting facts and figures which we post here.
The Facts
EcoSynergy: BT reduced its carbon footprint by 97,000 tons of CO2 / year, that’s 15% of its CO2 use, by using phone conferences & videoconferencing
Twitted on Saturday, July 12, 2008
EcoSynergy: Data centers: for every kilowatt of power demand, two kilowatts are provided on redundant circuits
Twitted on Thursday, July 03, 2008
EcoSynergy: Data centers are the biggest consumers of utility power in large companies, 1 kw / rack to > 25 kilowatts / rack for dense blade servers
Twitted on Thursday, July 03, 2008
EcoSynergy: Britain imports 95% of its fruit and more than half of its vegetables. Food accounts for 25% of truck shipments in Britain.
Twitted on Thursday, July 03, 2008
EcoSynergy: Fossil fuels are used to generate 66% of electricity WW. In the Middle East, it’s 93%, East & South Asia it’s 82%. Latin America it’s 38%
Twitted on Thursday, July 03, 2008
EcoSynergy: The average Chinese still emits 16% of the average US citizen. The average Indian emits 6% of the US average.
Twitted on Thursday, July 03, 2008
EcoSynergy: CO2 in China increased by 1,700 million tons between 1990 and 2003 (73% more). In India by 700 M tons (88% more)
Twitted on Thursday, July 03, 2008
EcoSynergy: In 1960, low and middle income countries only accounted for one third of world emissions
Twitted on Thursday, July 03, 2008
EcoSynergy: People produce 16 percent more CO2 today than in 1990 (Little Green Data Book 2007)
Twitted on Thursday, July 03, 2008
EcoSynergy: Green IT services will peak at $4.8 billion in 2013 (up from $500M in ‘08), (Forrester Research)
Twitted on Thursday, July 03, 2008
EcoSynergy: US data centers consumed about 61 billion kilowatt-hrs in 2006, (1.5 % of the total U.S. electricity consumption) (EPA)
Twitted on Thursday, July 03, 2008
EcoSynergy: You save 3,000 to 5,000 gallons of water for each pound of beef you avoid eating. Steve Boyan, PhD
Twitted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008
EcoSynergy: Your average car produces 3 kg/day of CO2. To clear rainforest to produce beef for one hamburger produces 75 kg of CO2. (Steve Boyan, PhD)
Twitted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008
EcoSynergy: The decomposition of trees destroyed in Hurricane Katrina is estimated to release 385 million metric tons of CO2—http://tinyurl.com/4vzqf4
Twitted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008
EcoSynergy: If left unchecked, energy related CO2 emissions are projected to grow 51% to 41.3 billion metric tons by 2030—http://tinyurl.com/5yrou5
Twitted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008