http://www.paystolivegreen.com/2008/07/co2-stats-project/ Save Money By Going Green. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:19:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.paystolivegreen.com/2008/07/co2-stats-project/#comment-62 Not sure this is real Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:27:46 +0000 http://www.paystolivegreen.com/?p=21#comment-62 I think this could use some more skepticism. As <a href="http://www.blognewcomb.com/blog/2008/02/co2_stats_making_the_internet.html" rel="nofollow">this post</a> points out, CO2 stats "does not include the impacts of servers and it does not automatically calculated the impact of an entire website simply by putting the widget on the home page." So while they say they're making your site carbon neutral, they're actually only even trying to calculate the energy used by the home PC of the person using it (not the servers running to keep the website up, which is what I think of when I think of a website's energy use). And they're not even doing the whole website - only the page that the widget actually appears on. So if somebody's got it on their homepage, only the homepage is even being tracked, not the rest of the site. That seems kinda wack to me. I think this could use some more skepticism. As this post points out, CO2 stats “does not include the impacts of servers and it does not automatically calculated the impact of an entire website simply by putting the widget on the home page.” So while they say they’re making your site carbon neutral, they’re actually only even trying to calculate the energy used by the home PC of the person using it (not the servers running to keep the website up, which is what I think of when I think of a website’s energy use). And they’re not even doing the whole website – only the page that the widget actually appears on. So if somebody’s got it on their homepage, only the homepage is even being tracked, not the rest of the site. That seems kinda wack to me.

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