So let's first congratulate Wissner-Gross on getting himself and his company talked about all over the internet, including here.

It is helpful, therefore, that Wissner-Gross's claim is at least providing a needed spur to debating the ICT sector's impact, and how best to reduce it.

If this is true, it surely makes a mockery of Wissner-Gross's claims as there's no way an average computer USES as much power as an electric kettle when it's boiling water.