[Foundation-l] Wikimedia and Environment

Nikola Smolenski smolensk at eunet.rs
Sun Dec 13 09:30:41 UTC 2009


Дана Saturday 12 December 2009 17:41:44 jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com написа:
> 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.

But think of all the coffee developers would have to cook while coding and 
optimizing in C!



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