Re: Travel Considerations

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On Oct 12, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Eric Burger wrote:

Here is an interesting optimization problem: it turns out the most
polluting part of a conference is people taking jets to fly to the
conference. Minimize that and the planet wins. Favors hub cities over spokes, like San Diego or Prague, where you "can't get there from here",
no matter where "here" is.

See http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/318/5847/36.pdf


If the Internet really uses 9.4% of total US electricity consumption, as is claimed here,

http://uclue.com/index.php?xq=724

then the problem is much worse than travel to IETF meetings.

Regards
Marshall


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