Projet de réduction des GES

GeoChronos was planned to run at UoC’s HP Labs Data Centre9, utilizing 48 cores. A back-of-the-envelope calculation, utilizing an online carbon calculator10 calibrated to each of the provinces, shows that if fully loaded around the clock, the cores that run GeoChronos could be responsible for as much as 30 tons of CO2e annually; additional emissions would be attributed to cooling, data storage, and network communication. The credits will be owned by the Grid Research Centre, because it is their service whose carbon footprint was improved. The credits may be sold on a number of markets in Canada. The price of a carbon credit (one ton of CO2e) is currently about $4USD. This price is expected to rise to $20 once US cap-&-trade legislation is enacted (Waxman Bill). Assuming that the project generates credits in the range of ten tons, we expect the sale value of the credits to be in the range of several hundred dollars. Although a small monetary quantity, the process enabling the creation & sale of these credits will open the door to scaled-up GHG reduction projects for ICT.