{"id":546385,"date":"2010-04-28T21:11:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T01:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/2010\/04\/29\/measuring-the-carbon-footprint-of-spam\/"},"modified":"2010-04-28T21:11:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T01:11:33","slug":"measuring-the-carbon-footprint-of-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546385","title":{"rendered":"Measuring the Carbon Footprint of Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/files\/2010\/04\/Picture-13.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1883\" title=\"Picture 13\" src=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/files\/2010\/04\/Picture-13.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"52\" \/><\/a> Looking for more reasons to hate spam? Here&#8217;s one. According to McAfee and ICF International, annual spam energy use totals 33 billion kilowatt-hours (KWh). That\u2019s equivalent to the electricity used in 2.4 million homes in the United States, with the same GHG emissions as 3.1 million passenger cars using two billion United States gallons of gasoline.<\/p>\n<p>This comes from <em>The Carbon Footprint of Email Spam Report<\/em> (download <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/inspiredeconomist\/com\/~3\/ips5pLSgDj0\/img.en25.com\/Web\/...\/CarbonFootprint_12pg_web_REV_NA.pdf\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that spam filtering makes a difference. According to McAfee, spam filtering saves 135 TWh of electricity per year. That\u2019s like taking 13 million cars off the road.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, if every inbox were protected by a state-of-the art spam filter, organizations and individuals could reduce today\u2019s spam energy by approximately 75% or 25 TWh per year. That\u2019s equivalent<br \/>\nto taking 2.3 million cars off the road.<\/p>\n<p>Filtering spam doesn&#8217;t seem like a huge environmental contribution when there are 42,000 gallons of oil from the Deep Horizon oil disaster still gushing into the Gulf Coast every day, but when you look at it from a global perspective, it makes a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, I can&#8217;t do anything about the oil in the Gulf Coast. But I can do something about my spam.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/?ak_action=api_record_view&#038;id=1882&#038;type=feed\" alt=\"\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/inspiredeconomist\/com\/~4\/ips5pLSgDj0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for more reasons to hate spam? Here&#8217;s one. According to McAfee and ICF International, annual spam energy use totals 33 billion kilowatt-hours (KWh). That\u2019s equivalent to the electricity used in 2.4 million homes in the United States, with the same GHG emissions as 3.1 million passenger cars using two billion United States gallons of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}