Greenwash Thy Avatar, Warcrafter

摘要

Mr, Know-It-All doesn't want you going all Oedipus on him, so he'll refrain from suggesting that (heaven forbid!) you curtail your WoW habit. But assuaging your enviro-guilt will inevitably require some sacrifices: If you aren't prepared to cut back, get ready to part with some cash. 1 According to Julian Bleecker, cofounder of design think tank the Near Future Laboratory, the average Second Life avatar requires 1,248 kilowatt hours of electricity to "exist" for a year-153 kWh for the servers and 1,095 kWh for your PC. In terms of carbon emissions, that's roughly the equivalent of driving 1,800 miles in a BMW 750Li. No one's made similar environmental calculations for WoW, but Mr. Know-It-AU can't imagine the game being appreciably cleaner than its competitors.