Re: Travel Considerations

On Oct 12, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Eric Burger wrote:

> Here is an interesting optimization problem: it turns out the most
> polluting part of a conference is people taking jets to fly to the
> conference.  Minimize that and the planet wins.  Favors hub cities  
> over
> spokes, like San Diego or Prague, where you "can't get there from  
> here",
> no matter where "here" is.
>
> See http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/318/5847/36.pdf

If the Internet really uses 9.4% of total US electricity consumption,  
as is claimed here,

http://uclue.com/index.php?xq=724

then the problem is much worse than travel to IETF meetings.

Regards
Marshall

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