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Did you ever work out how much energy was expended to manufacture and transport the parts? Chances are that with solar panels facing west in a place like The Ne
by hankman86 3y ago
Did you ever work out how much energy was expended to manufacture and transport the parts? Chances are that with solar panels facing west in a place like The Netherlands, it will take a long time to come out on top with your carbon footprint.
I reckon that the most energy-efficient setup for your blog would be a hosted solution. Data centres are already optimised for low energy use. And some cloud providers have committed to become carbon neutral.
Lowering your overall household electricity use would be a more effective way to lower your carbon output.
- mgraupner 3y agoI also think that this setup will not be worth it ecologically or economically.
- trabant00 3y agoAnd I bet his hardware saturation is low too, making it an even worse use of resources compared to shared hosting in a data center that uses bin packing or live migrating VMs or whatever. Because in the end you care about resources used for the actual work done, not the work capacity of the hardware. While it doesn't make much difference at this scale and it is a valid experiment to learn about solar power, it is telling of the general view about energy and environmental impact. People equate solar or wind or electric vehicles with green when the devil is always in the details.
- bartislartfast 3y agoDid you read the article? Quote: > It's fair to say that my experiment isn't rational because of the sub-optimal solar conditions. Yet, I'm unreasonably obsessed by solar power and I wanted to make it work, even if it didn't make sense from an economic or environmental perspective2. This is just a fun experiment