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I always wonder about this attitude. How do you feel about the aggregate energy consumption of all Candy Crush games being played (servers, network, phones, PC
by DougN7 8y ago
I always wonder about this attitude.
How do you feel about the aggregate energy consumption of all Candy Crush games being played (servers, network, phones, PCs, monitors)?
What about all the energy used to grow, harvest, produce, transport and distribute alcoholic drinks?
For that matter, what about all distributed energy used by Twitter, including all clients, data centers, network routers, corporate offices, etc (where few tweets communicate something worthwhile to an actual human)?
- joe_the_user 8y agoObviously, modern humans use energy for consumption (and hopefully for enjoyment), to varying degrees of efficiency. Racing muscle cars isn't my thing but I recognize here's an average person spending their gasoline on something they might get something out of. Bitcoin seems especially heinous because it a group of moderately well-off folks burning a truly vast amount of energy essentially for the purpose of getting more wealth than, say, non-bitcoin owners. And given that unbridled energy consumption currently promises local and global disasters on an increasing scale, this particular use of energy especially outrageous. Does that explain things?