How much paper to print the entire Internet?



How much the entire Internet to print out sheets of paper to use? 136 billion A4 paper. If all of stacked together, about 13357 km high! ? 8,000-meter-high Mount Everest, the Mariana Trench more than 10,000 meters.

So wonderful question who wants to come? Who counted out?

George Harwood of the University of Leicester and Evangeline Walker first print out all the pages for Wikipedia estimates, paper needs to obtain 70,859,865.

Then, they make the entire Internet pages inference, about 4.5 billion, ultimately deduced need 136 billion A4 paper. They did not specify the font, line spacing, but the order to put in here, do not seriously details. If you do not believe their calculations, you personally checking chant. Their paper found here .

So much paper, how many trees need to do? Pulp for paper, mostly from birch, oak cork tree, or fir, pine and other hardwood trees. Each tree can produce 17 reams (1 order = 500 full), it takes about 16 million trees, equivalent to three times more trees across New York City.

Now do you want to count, how many need to print out the entire Internet cartridges?

(Author: Tang via techradar businessinsider)

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