Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians

So as promised in my comment to Bryn's post, here is an article comparing the amount of electricity consumed by an avatar in second life compared to real human being is our Real Life. It is an interesting read, and certainly shed a new light in my eyes of how even in virtual spaces there can be and should be concerns for the environment.

Cheers
fi

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

We can never be completely aware of the effect of our actions on the world, but this is definitey an eye opener to the sustainability of SL. Also poses questions of how to make SL more sustainable and how to use other forms of energy to maintain SL and Virtual Reality systems.