Mobile phones to track carbon footprint.

[Champa]

Keeping track of your carbon footprint could become as simple as slipping a mobile phone in your pocket: a London-based start-up company has developed software for mobile phones that uses global positioning satellites to work out automatically whether you are walking, driving or flying and then calculate your impact on the environment.

Carbon Diem's inventors claim that, by using GPS to measure the speed and pattern of movement, their algorithm can identify the mode of transport being used. It can therefore calculate the amount of carbon dioxide that a journey has emitted into the atmosphere – without any need for input from the traveller.

The system's inventor, Andreas Zachariah, a graduate student of the Royal College of Art in London and chief executive of the Carbon Hero company, said that Carbon Diem is the world's first automated carbon calculator.

Rest here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...elandtransport

.. Oh dear . I wonder how many of the faithful will rush out to buy this new gizmo?.

[smilie]

Sounds like the beginnings of a new and wonderful form of taxation.

[Julian_Arnold]

...does it measure farts too?

Rest here:

London firm unveils new software for mobile phones that can track transport and measure carbon footprint | Environment | guardian.co.uk

.. Oh dear . I wonder how many of the faithful will rush out to buy this new gizmo?.