Virtual Reality Meetings Across the Pond will Prevent Pollution?

by L. Winslow
If we use technologies such as virtual reality, video conferencing and tele-commuting we can perhaps reduce pollution. By how much you ask? Well that is hard to say, what we need is some brilliant crack researchers to come along and figure out just how much we might save and how much pollution we might prevent by leveraging these high-tech methods.
If we use technologies such as virtual reality, video conferencing and tele-commuting we can perhaps reduce pollution. By how much you ask? Well that is hard to say, what we need is some brilliant crack researchers to come along and figure out just how much we might save and how much pollution we might prevent by leveraging these high-tech methods.

Indeed that might be interesting. Would you say that your summation is that by tele-commuting and Virtual Reality we will be doing less unnecessary traveling? I wish I knew the answer? It would be nice to look at some facts and figures and actual research. Let's talk about hypothetical scenarios or positives and negatives in this regard.

Positives:

Flights Across Pond - Airliners not heating up upper atmosphere and using Jet fuel (like Kerosene) putting out CO2. Less Congestion on Freeways stuck in traffic putting out excessive Carbon Monoxide since cars have richer mixtures when parked than at optimum 55 - 70 mph cruise speeds and less truck traffic, stuck in traffic thus less CO2?

Negatives:

Intensive computer systems at home for video conferencing etc. use 10 to 15 plus amps and a couple of those and you are already similar to running air-conditioning. Plus the more home workers the more air-conditioning units running in summer time in places like FL, GA, NC, SC, TX, OK, TN, AL, LA, MA, NM, AZ and CA; where as a suburban local corporation might be much more efficient considering new "glass coatings" and energy efficient systems, solar panels on roof, roof gardens, parking lot coatings (preventing urban heat), etc.

More delivery trucks doing inefficient deliveries to individual houses such as Pizza, Joe's Italian Deli, Fed Ex, UPS, special messengers, Geek Squad (I know they use Volkswagons that are economical, but I thought I would through that in for the FUN of it? :) and such.

Indeed, well this is a totally interesting subject and with clean coal technologies coming soon it will actually help clean the air by working at home. A quick side study; I almost died once in the Big Dig in traffic sitting there on a hot day for 90 minutes breathing fumes in the tunnel with little air flow and no air-conditioner (Freon depleted), rolled down the windows and oh man!

For those interested in VR tools, video online meetings here is a lead for you, a guy specializing in "Online Sales Presentations" Virtual Reality Style - www.mellanium.com. We have had lengthy conversations about this. Maybe this is the answer to CO2 emmissions?