Comments on: Revealed: How The Times Got Confused About Google and The Tea Kettle

By: robbi

robbi — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:34:20 +0000

I never thought about CO2 by searching in the web. That´s an quite interesting point of view.

By: Bilal Ahmed

Bilal Ahmed — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:42:32 +0000

really nicely mixed that topic

By: hzshen

hzshen — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:09:29 +0000

Well, it’s not as high as 7 grams, but it doesn’t appear to be as low as 0.2 grams. How about 1.2 grams? Check this out:

http://saltair....gle-am-i-wrong/

75 million Google searches worldwide per hour, consumes 100,000 kWh, and 900 grams of carbon dioxide is released for each kWh generated. For every search, the amount of carbon dioxide release is:

900 * 100,000 / 75,000,000 = 1.2 gram

By: Bill Adam

Bill Adam — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:48:47 +0000

its really amazing yo know that

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[...] Nylig kunne The Times fortelle at hvert Google-søk genererer 7 gram CO2. (Som viste seg senere å bare være svada.) [...]

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Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:45:53 +0000

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By: Wu Yi

Wu Yi — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:28:03 +0000

Thanks for haring such a nice stuff.

By: Preeti

Preeti — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:53:19 +0000

Wissner-Gross told us he prefers decaf coffee. Wonder if those would be considered weasel words.

For the interview with him: http://www.webh...s-interview.php

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Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:01:23 +0000

[...] fellow at Harvard University, was quoted later in that paragraph, but he told me, as he told other blogs, that he wasn’t the source for the seven-gram figure: “They were using numbers from [...]

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Score one for the de-atomized audience « The Freeman’s Journal — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:16:11 +0000

[...] search consuming half as much energy as boiling a kettle from initial made up gobbledegook, to refutation, to the Times’s response (there’s been no official retraction). That response ends [...]

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Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:44:04 +0000

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By: Jerry Okorie

Jerry Okorie — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:56:19 +0000

As you’re mentioning stoves and whether they’re gas or electric, I suspect that you’re not familiar with what Brits are generally talking about when they say kettle in the context of tea or coffee.

Pretty much 100% of the time here, when saying kettle, we’re referring to the plug-in, electric type of kettle and not the stove top version (I don’t think I know a single person with a stove top version that isn’t just ornamental now).

A Canadian friend once found this out over here, almost to the cost of a very nice flat near Tower Bridge. She was making the tea one morning, found the cordless, electric kettle, filled it with water, turned on the gas hob and placed it on there before going to the front room to watch TV. She was only alerted by the smell of the rubber seals and plastic base burning a few minutes later and the smoke pouring out of the kitchen.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:51:40 +0000

Every statement Wissner-Gross makes contains weasel words.

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