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I don't quite reach that number. According to Landauer's principle the minimum energy required to flip a bit is 0.0172 eV. Times 2^128 is ~10^18 J. The first go
by dschn_dstryr 8y ago
I don't quite reach that number. According to Landauer's principle the minimum energy required to flip a bit is 0.0172 eV. Times 2^128 is ~10^18 J. The first google result for boiling all oceans puts it around 10^29 J. Even at realistic energy values for current hardware (10 fJ), we are still 5 orders of magnitude short of boiling all oceans.
- drivingmenuts 8y ago> we are still 5 orders of magnitude short of boiling all oceans. Well, there goes that startup idea ...
- pygy_ 8y agoThat was thus marketing BS, thanks for doing the math :-)
- ilyagr 8y agoSeems like if we keep boiling, that's about what it takes to boil lake Baikal.