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Solar Protocol
- ChrisArchitect 6y agodiscussion a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26441520 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26441520
- PaulHoule 6y agoDo you save any fossil energy sending a web request around the world to where the Sun shines considering the cost to send the data? I remember reading that distributing a video games to an XBox One via internet releases more carbon into the atmosphere than distributing the game via a Blu-Ray. The amount of energy required to send a bit per mile might be irreducible in the end or at least not scalable the way the CMOS microprocessor has been.
- eutropia 6y ago> I remember reading that distributing a video games to an XBox One via internet releases more carbon into the atmosphere than distributing the game via a Blu-Ray. Without a source, I'd have to say that this smells incorrect -- I would really love to see the origin of this thought.