[LINK] Clouds of Coal

[Kim Davies]

Quoting Tom Worthington on Thursday April 01, 2010:
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| Unfortunately the case in the report is undermined by the way the report
| is distributed: as a very poorly formatted, inefficient PDF document.
| The report is a 24 page 7 Mbyte PDF document. The document is therefore
| about 10 times larger than it need be and will be generating 10 times as
| much greenhouse gas emissions as a properly designed document would.

Can you explain how you came to the conclusion that 700kb is the optimal
size for that file; and that greenhouse gas emissions has a linear
correlation to file size?

These sound like pretty massive assumptions.

For what its worth, if I put all the text from that PDF into a UTF-8
encoded text file, I end up with 25,173 bytes, which by maths is 1/295th
the size of the PDF file. Of course, pictures are worth a thousand
words, and there are only approximately 3,800 words in that document...

kim