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How many TWh crypto consumed? Would one be able to build Egyptian pyramids with this amount of energy?
by SonOfThePlower 4y ago
How many TWh crypto consumed? Would one be able to build Egyptian pyramids with this amount of energy?
- londons_explore 4y agoClearly, yes. Building a pyramid, in the ideal case, simply requires the energy to lift each stone into place. Lifting 6.5 million tons of stone on average 40 meters (remember that most of the weight of a pyramid is at the bottom!) uses 6.5e9 * 40 * 10 Joules of energy, which is 722 MWh, which costs $144,000 in (California) electricity. Okay - thats a lot more than I expected actually...