Does much does electronic information weight?
I seem to be in a great pseudo-intellectual sprint these days … So I have been wondering about this one for a while … does electronic information have a physical weight … and if so … would it be environmentally better to write shorter emails, webpages, facebook status, linkedin profiles and so forth?
I guess that more information (in bytes) means more web traffic, takes more space on your hard drive and/or in RAM, takes longer to read, which means your monitor is on for longer and so forth. Essentially all these things lead to more use of electricity, which potentially means more damage to the environment. However the question still remains … does electronic information have a physical weight … will my computer be a nano-gram heavier – if I have LOTS of mails and programs open – contrary to a few?
