Pending the industry will develop non-polluting renewable sources of energy, something you can already do in this era so dependent oil, and a great help can come from broadband connections. That at least is what emerges from the report presented by the American Consumer Institute, the association for the protection of U.S. consumers. According to calculations, the pollution savings achieved through digital highways is significant: 1 billion tons of emissions that cause global warming in ten years. Ie, 11% of the total produced by the United States. A given non-negligible, especially for an economy like the U.S. based largely on oil. The benefits of broadband are all indirect benefits, because they are the services enabled by the super-fast connections to generate real savings of harmful emissions to the atmosphere. Four major items which make up the services that clean the air of CO2: the e-commerce, teleworking, teleconferencing and the digitization of many goods and entertainment.
Telecommuting and teleconferencing are the items most readily understandable in light emission. Reduce travel on vehicles powered by oil pollution and eliminate doubt, in the case of managers who are often on the road and instead use the aircraft as a means of transport, the benefits are evident. According to calculations Consumers Association stars and stripes, the savings for transport provided by teleworking is estimated at 248 million tonnes of harmful emissions. At this advantage is also in all the savings that companies no longer have to accommodate all employees and offices and therefore can reduce heating costs. As far as video conferencing, it is estimated that if properly used could lead to a reduction of 10% of domestic air travel, resulting in lower consumption of polluting energy.
Another important item for the sustainable future of humanity is electronic commerce (e-commerce) and in digital goods. These new forms of business allow a saving in freight transport and storage that affect emissions to 206 million tons of harmful emissions, which must be added the 67 million saved for digital goods such as CDs, books, movies and games that losing their physicality lose their energy needs to be packaged, shipped and stored. An important role in this list of digitized goods is also played by electronic mail, which reduces in this case in addition to transport even the killing of forests to produce paper letter.
The ratio of U.S. consumers clearly indicates the conditions necessary for their predictions come true: all these savings will occur only if the broadband connections are widespread throughout the country. The condition therefore does not enter 1 billion tons of harmful emissions to the atmosphere in the U.S. is that everyone - companies and individuals - have a broadband connection. Currently in the U.S. 95% of the population is reached by fast connections, but only 45% use them.
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