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That's like saying a water bottle factory has only an output of N water bottles per day while the Three Gorges Dam can output N million liters of water a day wi
by foepys 7y ago
That's like saying a water bottle factory has only an output of N water bottles per day while the Three Gorges Dam can output N million liters of water a day with the difference that the Three Gorges Dam actually produces something useful, electricity, while doing so.
Just because it's a higher number, it doesn't mean it's equally useful.
- arcticbull 7y agoIt's more like instead of using the Three Gorges Dam to generate power you use the giant flow of water to fill 7 water bottles per second and divert the rest to dry up in a nearby salt flat, citing the renewability of the solution.
- dx034 7y agoSo supercomputers produce nothing useful but the bitcoin network does? In the long term I'm not sure we gained anything so far by all the energy spent on bitcoins. Some people got richer, some got poorer but I've yet to see any benefits for society from bitcoin.