Comments on: Computers as environment-unfriendly as planes?

IT cumulatively produces as much carbon dioxide as the world's commercial aircraft, research firm Gartner asserts.

[DoughboyNJ]

Benefit risk

How much energy is SAVED by using IT?

How much efficiency is added to work processes?
How many trips to library are saved by doing work online?

IT improves our lives on a daily, almost hourly basis.

[billmosby]

Very true.

Also, for me personally, at least, it has cut down on my use of
paper tremendously while providing lots of information that I
would not otherwise have. The paperless office is far from
universal, of course, but even there it cut down on the paper I
had to use in the office by a lot. Got so I rarely printed much.
And using a laptop instead of desktop probably saved energy as
well. Plus, the amount of energy used per unit of computing, etc,
has gone down by orders of magnitude over the last 20 years, I'll
hazard a guess.

Besides, how much of the total CO2 does air travel generate,
anyway? A quick look at the web shows around 2 percent. We
could use the existing IT system to virtual-travel our way out of
a lot of flying if we wanted to.

[suyts]

I wonder how much money

was spent doing this rediculous study. What are we going to do? Quit doing business? Turn off our servers? I don't think so. Slow our processors? Nope, not that either. I hope that I didn't pay for that through my taxes but I have a sinking feeling that I did. I can't wait to see what stupid law gets proposed to screw with the IT profession.

[bobbydi]

Pay Gartner To Leave Us Alone

Gartner is going to bother everybody he can until
he gets a nice paying job or his pro-ecological
piece of bs book starts selling great. Let him win his black-mail plan to get rid of him.

[fred dunn]

Gartner's Next Paper...Allied Victory In WWII

Gartner publishes the obvious as revelations that everybody is unaware of.
It just numbs my brain when I see a Gartner paper and see that most of this info is either biased or so blatently obvious.
Most IT "worker-level" personnel are a step ahead of Gartner and their publications.
If management asked their own personnel for these same reports they would come out a world ahead since the particular business model would be taken into consideration and the obvious exposed as obvious and not the basis for a publication.