Met Office HQ "most polluting public building"

[photodog]

"The Met Office's new headquarters in Exeter has been named as one of the most polluting public buildings by the Department of Communities and Local Government, which drew up a league table of the worst environmental offenders in the public sector.

The reason lies in the bowels of the building, where there is a £30million IBM machine that fills halls the size of two football pitches and is thought to be the second most powerful system in the country. Running it produces 12,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. The computer is used to run weather modelling software and is also used for research into climate change.......It will have 15million megabytes of memory - but will require 1.2 megawatts of electricity to run."


Youd think with a computer like that... they could at least have a decent website.

 

[curve]

The bigger they are the easier they are to hack.

I wonder if if plays Global Thermonuclear War.

 

[bilbobaggins]

".....Running it produces 12,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year .....will require 1.2 megawatts of electricity to run."

That's a lot of hot air..... MMGW indeed!

 

[photodog]

hmmm... How does the Met office resolve the ethics of knowingly conducting research that will contribute to the problem that the said research is supposed to be helping to solve......


Discuss.

 

[Malish]

ethics have never paid salaries!

 

[davidwf]

I would hope given it's a new building that they recover the waste heat and use it to heat their water and Offices in the winter. Mind you it's a gov building so guess they built it as cheap as possible so perhaps not :-(

 

[NealB]

hmmm... How does the Met office resolve the ethics of knowingly conducting research that will contribute to the problem that the said research is supposed to be helping to solve......


Discuss.

Easy....they'll use the same justification as all those rock and film stars (vomit!!), and self-righteous politicians (groan, groan!!) who jet around the world saving the world and preaching to the rest of us.

ie a little more pollution by them will have negligible impact, but the results of their efforts could be huge.

Please be clear that my stating of their case doesn't mean that I'm convinced of its validity.

 

[fergie_mac66]

met office is changing climate so their forcasts will be right , instead of wrong