JIMS Blog: Green Computing
The pace with which ICT (Information and Communication Technology) is taking over across the world, it is also raising red flags for the environment at that same pace. The process of manufacturing a computer and even its smallest elements takes up a large number of raw materials, electricity, chemical, water and procreating nothing but hazardous waste. Moreover, if we consider the fact that a single PC (Personal Computer) in use creates about a ton of Carbon Dioxide every year, the threat these small wonder bones passes to Earth’s natural Carbon Cycle increases. It castrates the natural cycle by adding much more CO2 , then what is required for the functioning of Carbon Cycle. The much heated and debated issue of Glacier’s melting and Global Warming are just assumed to be expected consequences of this disruption but the unexpected increase in the sea level, disastrous droughts, floods, storms and depletion of Ozone layer and spread of disease due to increase in atmosphe...