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It's one thing to consider energy use of a webpage (I'm guessing a lot of "slide show" functions chew up gigawatt-hours of electricity every year) but it's anot
by KennyBlanken 4y ago
It's one thing to consider energy use of a webpage (I'm guessing a lot of "slide show" functions chew up gigawatt-hours of electricity every year) but it's another to implement infrastructure which consumes power to save power.
One also needs to be wary of lost opportunity cost for equipment. Frankly, just put the money into funding for utility-scale solar installations where everything is more efficient.
- londons_explore 4y agoutility scale anything is more efficient. That's why micro-farms will never take off commercially - the money and climate costs of transport are smaller than the savings from being a big farm rather than 20 cabbages on someone's roof.
- micromacrofoot 4y agolooks like the equipment cost roughly $700