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Beyond Green Computing

Written by Ben Hall
Thursday, 08 May 2008
www.wattwatt.com Like every other product of the advanced manufacturing capabilities of a long-industrialised society the computers that surround us – and, for the pacemaker wearers among us, that we have taken into our bodies – carry an environmental cost. Silicon may be cheap, but turning it into processors requires vast amounts of energy, clean water and many potentially toxic chemicals... View complete story Share this article:

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