Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Energy Required to Run the Internet

Question: How many electronic devices are connected to the Internet?  What percentage of the U.S. total energy consumption does this represent?

Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.

Relevance: Very little, especially considering the obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that the Internet confers on our society.  Even with the Internet, and the fact that 4 billion people can publish their own uncensored ideas, we still have an enormous consolidation of power in the for-profit media that is hellbent on controlling what we think about any given news item.  It’s hard to imagine how tough it would be for alternative news sources in the absence of the Internet.