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I wonder what the carbon footprint of these industrial printing presses is and how it compares to crypto mining or NFTs or whatever it is that's fashionable to
by Ansil849 5y ago
I wonder what the carbon footprint of these industrial printing presses is and how it compares to crypto mining or NFTs or whatever it is that's fashionable to complain about nowadays?
- bob1029 5y agoI haven't done the actual math but I'd estimate you could print, bind, package and deliver a book using less energy than it takes to perform a single bitcoin transaction.
- Ansil849 5y agoI'd genuinely be interested in seeing the math behind that reasoning. Not because I think it's true or not true, but because I just genuinely have no idea so would like to see how this sort of comparison is calculated.
- bob1029 5y agoThe last time I actually did do the math, the base figure for completion of 1 bitcoin transaction was somewhere north of a megawatt-hour of electrical energy. To put this in perspective, you could run the "average" American home for over a month with 1 MWh. At scale, I don't think it requires the energy consumption of an entire American household over the course of a month to produce a single book.