As we are becoming increasingly aware of the carbon footprint we leave living in our modern world, we are looking for ways to help reduce or eliminate it all together.
Green Web Hosting refers to those web hosting companies that make efforts to reduce their carbon footprint, or even to become completely carbon neutral. This benefits you because you can continue to offer your website to the world without leaving a negative carbon footprint.
For an average year of hosting your website a non-green web hosting company will help emit 19,890 lbs of Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere.
By 2020 the amount of servers used to host web sites is projected to increase four fold. As a result they are expected to surpass the airline industry as a source of Carbon emitters.
This is a reality of the world we live, the power needed to run the servers traditionally comes from unclean methods.
But there is another way!
Alternative energy such as solar and wind are becoming increasingly efficient and cost effective. Everyday people are able to invest in these alternate types of energy and choose to use services that take advantage of this clean and sustainable source.
Along with alternative energy,green web hosting companies are offsetting their carbon footprint is by purchasing carbon credits. By investing in technologies and initiatives that will reduce carbon emissions in other parts of the world they can negate the impact hosting your website would have.
These are both great ways to get starting living a carbon neutral lifestyle. I hope you find the information here useful in helping you find the right web hosting solution.
What are the different ways we can make energy to power our websites?
Wind Farms
A large wind farm may consist of a few dozen to about 100 individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles (square kilometers),
At the end of March 2008 the United States wind power capacity was 18,302 MW, which is enough to serve 4.9 million average households.
Solar Arrays
Solar Collectors transform short wavelengths into long wavelengths and trap this energy in the form of heat which is transferred and transported into a heat storage vault. Solar panels convert selected wavelengths of light into electricity.
The earth receives more energy from the sun in just one hour than the world uses in a whole year.
Solar panel technology is getting more affordable every year. A well planned solar house can supply all the electrical household needs and 80% of the heating requirements.
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