[Foundation-l] Wikimedia and Environment

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Teofilo <teofilowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do we have an idea of the energy consumption related to the online
> access to a Wikipedia article ? Some people say that a few minutes
> long search on a search engine costs as much energy as boiling water
> for a cup of tea : is that story true in the case of Wikipedia (4) ?

my 2 cents : this php is cooking more cups of tea than an optimized
program written in c.