The internet weighs 2 ounces... apparently:
ADAMANT: Weighing the Web: "Forbes publisher and blogger Rich Karlgaard recently lamented his $1,200 monthly home utility bill. That's a lot of PG &E , but the yearly power bill for the global internet is just $3 per capita- a bargain even by third world standards. Yet looking at my ISP bill I’m not too happy - a dollar a day seems a trifle high when you reckon the weight of the penny’s worth of electricity my computation consumes. My daily fix of electrons in motion costs me about half a billion dollars a pound. Let me explain."
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