- Living single torrents pro#
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I'll at least run through the big numbers so you can fudge the math in whatever way makes you feel better (if you're pro or anti pirating). The top range is, as others have said, impossible to calculate. A great many torrenting computers are on for other purposes, as are all of the network connections between them. Posted by kdar at 10:33 AM on March 8, 2009Īt the lower bounds the answer is: negligible. You're going to have to make assumptions about this: do you include the entire carbon footprint of the manufacture of the computer hardware? Probably not, but how much of that should you consider? How about the networking gear? It's a complicated problem, so however you do choose to calculate this you're going to want to be upfront about your assumptions and method.
some sort of assumption of how much energy is used by routers and such in transmitting the data over the Internet, if this is even possible to find.Īnd it goes on.some sort of an assumption on the average electricity use per-node, taking into account that this can vary wildly depending on whether the node is somebody's laptop or a server in an actively cooled and staffed datacenter somewhere.related to above, the average seed:leech ratio, so you can figure out how much time each node spends seeding and each node spends leeching.
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average bandwidth of a node, both up and down (so you can figure out how long it takes a node to seed the torrent as well as how long it takes to leech this is probably going to be the most complicated part). how many nodes have leeched the torrent. how many nodes are seeding the torrent. If you wanted to come up with some sort of formula to approximate this, you'd want to figure out: The problem with calculating something like this is that torrents are just so variable that, like metalheart and smackfu say, it's nearly impossible to get a fix on this. Posted by smackfu at 10:26 AM on March 8, 2009 People doing stuff uses a lot more carbon than computers doing stuff. Again impossible to connect to a single torrent download.īut in truth, the biggest carbon footprint of a torrent is due to the activities by those who are trying to shut them down. You could also argue that torrents enable people to use much more of their allotted bandwidth, which increases the overall traffic passing through the ISPs, which requires more hardware like routers to be turned on, which requires more power. But it's virtually impossible to relate that to a single torrent download, especially since most of the computers may have dozens of simultaneous torrents available, and if you weren't downloading one, someone else would be downloading another. OTOH, you could argue that a lot of computers are left on all the time, where they wouldn't be otherwise, just to keep torrents going. As long as the torrent is being sent over a path that would be live anyway, and most are, it wouldn't use much of anything. The incremental energy used to actually send data over a link is negligible, relative to the power required to have the link live in the first place. You could make a good argument that it is zero.
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