Re: How much of the web runs on renewables today?

I wrote a set of essays on quantifying sustainability a few years ago on my
blog, http://sustainablevirtualdesign.wordpress.com. A full Life-Cycle
Analysis seemed out of the questions, so I proposed a scheme of "green
ingredients" - swapping one part of the the web build with an equivalent
part that was more sustainable. An example for Virtual Reality (near the
end of the deck) at :

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OTXaz3RuV0HWgM754PRMUC7d2KYVHH974s5hnAt53wk/edit?usp=sharing

also see my comments on CMS systems at:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ji7s09H-NLggO6b11YvOY9pP3QQaXKj7jNfIPoqzqqk/edit?usp=sharing


On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 5:05 AM, Tom Greenwood <tom@wholegraindigital.com>
wrote:

> Hi Chris
>
> Thanks for sharing these findings.  Really interesting to read, and
> fascinating that Hertzner is ahead of Google in terms of the number of
> domains hosted in the top 100K.
>
> We have quietly soft launched a public version of our carbon calculator at
> https://www.websitecarbon.com/ as an educational piece.  This only looks
> at standard web pages and the public version will only test the homepage.
>
> We make assumptions tailored to standard web pages, but there are
> applications where much more work is happening at a server level that needs
> to be accounted for and that is a lot more complex, so it would be great to
> find a way to quantify that.  I think this ties in with what you are trying
> to find out, so if I find any relevant data I'll send it over.  Happy to
> discuss and collaborate if there is a synergy.  Just drop me an email.
>
> Best regards,
>
> *Tom Greenwood*
> Managing Director
>
>
>
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> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 2:51 PM, Pete Markiewicz <pindiespace@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Great to see this project. Lots of resources I collected going back
>> several years at http://sustainablevirtualdesign.wordpress.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 5:04 AM, Chris Adams <chris@productscience.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey folks,
>>>
>>> Through this group, I've made a few useful contacts, who have helped me
>>> do some research I figured might be interesting.
>>>
>>> I was planning to use it as background research for the Planet Friendly
>>> Web Guide <https://www.planetfriendlyweb.org/>, as I work on it this
>>> week, but I figured others might find it useful, or interesting.
>>>
>>> Here are the highlights:
>>>
>>>    - Youtube.com is now more popular than google.com. Who knew?
>>>    - The top three websites in the world run on renewable power. Huzzah!
>>>    - Based on the greenweb foundation’s data, around 7% of the web the
>>>    most popular domains on the net run on renewable power. We have a lot of
>>>    work to do, clearly.
>>>    - Hetzner AG, a German hosting company hosts more domains running on
>>>    green power  in the top 100k sites according to Alexa than Google does.
>>>
>>> I've written a blog post below summarising this, and linking to the code
>>> I used to generate the dataset, and what little analysis I've been doing:
>>>
>>> https://blog.chrisadams.me.uk/2018/05/15/how-much-of-the-web
>>> -runs-on-renewables-today/
>>>
>>> I'm really looking for others interested in looking through this, to
>>> come up with other interesting findings a bit like how Tim did with the
>>> Ecograder stuff.
>>>
>>> So, if you know any folks who like playing with data, and well… like the
>>> planet, please do share this with them.
>>>
>>> *A favour to ask*
>>>
>>> If you could help me with this next thing, I'd be *super* happy.
>>>
>>> I'm looking for numbers for the energy use for servers, per hour, for
>>> running infrastructure, so I can build a calculator to share on the web -
>>> can anyone here can point me to a resource that isn't behind a massive
>>> paywall,?
>>>
>>> If I have this I can work out a CO2 emissions per hour figure (which
>>> probably should take into account where in the world the servers are
>>> <https://www.planetfriendlyweb.org/your-packets/#energy-mix-around-the-world>),
>>> and have enough to start testing a methodology for helping tech companies
>>> get a ballpark figure in terms of CO2 emissions of infra they are already
>>> running, so they model different ways to run the applications/products they
>>> build.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
>>> Chris Adams
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>> *Dr. Pete Markiewicz*
>> *Email:* pindiespace@gmail.com
>> *Portfolio:* http://plyojump.com
>> *Github:* http://github.com/pindiespace
>> *Linkedin:* http://linkedin.com/in/pindiespace
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>>
>> *My "Ux in VR" presentations on Google Docs (note you can comment)WebVR
>> 1.0
>> APIhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13a29m0SbpTeItFP8fjrSoKNb7nsjAd4DC9lWnokWEfg/edit?usp=sharing
>> <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13a29m0SbpTeItFP8fjrSoKNb7nsjAd4DC9lWnokWEfg/edit?usp=sharing>Sustainable
>> Ux in
>> VRhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OTXaz3RuV0HWgM754PRMUC7d2KYVHH974s5hnAt53wk/edit?usp=sharing
>> <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OTXaz3RuV0HWgM754PRMUC7d2KYVHH974s5hnAt53wk/edit?usp=sharing>Sustainable
>> virtual design blog:* http://sustainablevirtualdesign.wordpress.com
>> *Sustainability template:* http://greenboilerplate.com
>> *Sustainable Ux in Virtual Reality for Sustainable Ux 2017 (narrated): *
>> *https://youtu.be/bU0tz05lcBw <https://youtu.be/bU0tz05lcBw>*
>> ============================================================
>> =================
>> *Buy my book! *- Millennials and the Popular Culture
>> *Lifecourse:* http://www.lifecourse.com/store/catalog/lca/mpc.html
>> *Amazon Author Page:* http://www.amazon.com/Pe
>> te-Markiewicz/e/B0069VZ7BG/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_2
>> ============================================================
>> =================
>> *On that page, see my DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 entry video, "Team
>> Robomonster":*
>> *Team Robomonster *(DARPA 2005 Grand Challenge):
>> http://robotsthatjump.wordpress.com/category/team-robomonster/
>> ============================================================
>> =================
>> *Indiespace *(1st to sell downloaded music, March 1994):
>> http://www.indiespace.com. Also see http://archive.org under
>> "Kspace.com" 1996 for our original site.
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>
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*Dr. Pete Markiewicz*
*Email:* pindiespace@gmail.com
*Portfolio:* http://plyojump.com
*Github:* http://github.com/pindiespace
*Linkedin:* http://linkedin.com/in/pindiespace
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*My "Ux in VR" presentations on Google Docs (note you can comment)WebVR 1.0
APIhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13a29m0SbpTeItFP8fjrSoKNb7nsjAd4DC9lWnokWEfg/edit?usp=sharing
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13a29m0SbpTeItFP8fjrSoKNb7nsjAd4DC9lWnokWEfg/edit?usp=sharing>Sustainable
Ux in
VRhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OTXaz3RuV0HWgM754PRMUC7d2KYVHH974s5hnAt53wk/edit?usp=sharing
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OTXaz3RuV0HWgM754PRMUC7d2KYVHH974s5hnAt53wk/edit?usp=sharing>Sustainable
virtual design blog:* http://sustainablevirtualdesign.wordpress.com
*Sustainability template:* http://greenboilerplate.com
*Sustainable Ux in Virtual Reality for Sustainable Ux 2017 (narrated): *
*https://youtu.be/bU0tz05lcBw <https://youtu.be/bU0tz05lcBw>*
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*Buy my book! *- Millennials and the Popular Culture
*Lifecourse:* http://www.lifecourse.com/store/catalog/lca/mpc.html
*Amazon Author Page:*
http://www.amazon.com/Pete-Markiewicz/e/B0069VZ7BG/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_2
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*On that page, see my DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 entry video, "Team
Robomonster":*
*Team Robomonster *(DARPA 2005 Grand Challenge):
http://robotsthatjump.wordpress.com/category/team-robomonster/
============================================================
=================
*Indiespace *(1st to sell downloaded music, March 1994):
http://www.indiespace.com. Also see http://archive.org under
"Kspace.com" 1996 for our original site.
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