Comments on: Greening the Valley, one tech giant at a time

Executives from Cisco, HP, and Sun talk at Fortune conference about how to prevent the tech industry's carbon footprint from growing to 3 percent by 2020.

[rslc]

A PC consumes avg 100W when doing nothing.
A 3.5inch harddisk consumes 10-20W each.
How many PCs are there in this world?

I'm sure the tech industry should and can do alot mroe than 3 percent cut.

[AIMike24]

The 2 percent tag seems like a relatively small amount without any other numbers. I think the number of people employed in the technology industry would make the article more shocking.

Anyone aware of the number of employees worldwide or even in the US of the tech industry?

[stlwest]

There are third party solutions for this but Microsoft doesn't make it easy for admins to customize an entire user base globally, although Vista and 2008 server will have better support. For an idividual user you can download a program like local cooling.

Of course if your computer is working on doing climate prediction distributed computing you have a dilema on your hands.

[mosske]

This is a great list of activities but we are all from big companies and big companies can do lots of things and things with big numbers attached ? but how do we know if they are sufficient ? The challenge that we should be setting ourselves as corporations is to be able to put our activities and targets within the context of solving the problem. So for example if every company followed HP?s great example and took back that much waste (as a proportion of the material they produce) would we have a sustainable approach to landfills ?
BT has tried to do this with our new Climate Stabilization Intensity (CSI) target for emissions reduction by setting a target for reductions that, if all corporations were to set similar targets, would put us on the road that reflects the most recent scientific consensus for what is required to achieve stabilization. http://www.btplc.com/News/Articles/ShowArticle.cfm?ArticleID=f1df4b4f-ca46-4dee-849a-66e447b53e68