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Met Office Supercomputer Embarrassment |
The £33m supercomputer purchased to calculate how climate change will affect Britain, has a giant carbon footprint of its own |
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For the Met Office the forecast is a considerable embarrassment. |
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It has spent £33m on a new supercomputer to calculatehow climate change will affect Britain |
Only to find the new machine has a giant carbon footprintof its own. |
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“The supercomputer, emits 14,400 tonnes of CO2 ayear,” said Dave Britton, the Met Office’s chief pressofficer. |
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This is equivalent to the CO2 emitted by 2,400 homes– generating an average of six tonnes each a year. |
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It also releases its own share of emissionsin Exeter as well |
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Some days it’s likean atomic bomb has gone off over the areaas its emissions slowly drifts down wind |
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On very cold days it can be seen swirling down fromthe chimneys |
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covering the instruments |
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Emits 14,400 tonnes of CO2 a year |
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Equivalent to the CO2 emitted by 2,400 home |
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£33m |
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