10 June 2007

Taskforce to cut 'cyber warming'

"Reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the production, operation and disposal of computers is to be the aim of a new government taskforce.

Computers and other IT equipment have been blamed for causing as much global warming as the airline industry.

The taskforce will oversee the piloting of a "green PC" service in which individual machines use 98% less energy than standard PCs."

Click on the link below for the full article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6738547.stm

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